In Spring One Plants Alone
7.8
This is the story of Puhi, an aged Maori woman and Niki, her fully grown but wholly dependent son. The world they occupy is not a world of large events but the rituals of everyday life, traditions and interdependence. “In Spring One Plants Alone” documents the minutiae of their very enclosed existence. Filmed over a period of one and a half years, it emerges as a rare, haunting and powerful portrayal of their life together. This is the story of their rituals and of their survival. The small and disconnected instances that we encounter form a lone vision of the rifts and the bond between an old woman and her disturbed son.
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Vincent Ward Director · Jack Body Composer Alun Bollinger Cinematographer
First release July 31, 1980 · Produced in New Zealand
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Vincent Ward Films
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New Zealand
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English
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New Zealand · July 31, 1980
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