Magik and Rose
Aroview: Uplifting comic melodrama set during the Hokitika Wild Food Festival that rises above its familiar story of two women who, in different ways, have missed out on motherhood.
Quirky country-town setting and distinctive New Zealand-ness could easily have lapsed into kitsch Kiwiana but stuff of substance, humour and poignance instead prevails. Alison Bruce is excellent as Magik.
NZ International Film Festival 2000
Reference Links: Magik and RoseNZ On Screen film review.
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