Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia, France
The story
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
- adultery
- secret love
- beach
- jealousy
- love triangle
- isolation
- culture clash
- sexuality
- arranged marriage
- strangeness
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Cliff Curtis — Mana
- Kerry Walker — Aunt Morag
- Ian Mune — Reverend
- Geneviève Lemon — Nessie
- Pete Smith — Hone
- Bruce Allpress — Blind Piano Tuner
- Rose McIver — Angel
- Verity George — Bluebeard's Wife
- Stephen Papps — Bluebeard
- Karen Colston — Bluebeard's Wife (Miss Palmer)
- Eddie Campbell — Seaman
- Directed
- Jane Campion
- Written
- Jane Campion
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 1,675 ratings
- Studio
- CiBy 2000, Jan Chapman Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
