Magik and Rose

New Zealand 2000,
Dir. Vanessa Alexander
Rating: [M]
Genres: Comedy / Girlpower

Feat. Alison Bruce, Nicola Murphy, Oliver Driver, Simon Ferry, Florence Hartigan

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