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Ten Canoes 90 minutes, Australia (2006),
(4.0)
Rating: 4.0 Stars
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Average user rating (3.2 / 9 votes)
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Anthropology, adultery and egg-hunting combine to tell the story of a Northern Aboriginal tribe's culture and traditions

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Ten Canoes: "Once upon a time in a land far far away...". Rolf De Heer's and Peter Djigirr's Ten Canoes begins like a classic fairytale or even Star Wars. But then, with an audible smirk, its playful narrator (Gulpilil) interrupts himself ("No, not like that, I'm only joking"), before going on to promise a story about himself and his people "like you never seen before".

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