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In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland’s unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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94%- Reviews Counted: 18
- Fresh: 17
- Rotten: 1
- Average Rating: 7.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Robert Flaherty, the mellow wanderer with a camera, has made a memorable film out of the tragic and beautiful fundamentals of human behavior.
Fresh: The sea is the villain and the quest for food the plot of this peasants-among-peasants picture, which rates high artistically.
Fresh: The photography is brilliant, the best of any of Flaherty's work.
Fresh: Flaherty's sense of poetic grandeur never lets up.
Customer Reviews
Great film
I recently got to go to the Aran islands where this film is located and saw parts of it the film while there. It is considered a treasure by the people of the islands and shows accurately what life has been like for them on a rocky island. well worth watching.
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