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Man of Aran

  NR HD

Robert Flaherty

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Plot Summary

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.

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. – Andre Sennwald, New York Times, Jul 16, 2008

Fresh: The sea is the villain and the quest for food the plot of this peasants-among-peasants picture, which rates high artistically. – Variety Staff, Variety, Jul 7, 2010

Fresh: The photography is brilliant, the best of any of Flaherty's work. – Don Druker, Chicago Reader, Jun 24, 2010

Fresh: Flaherty's sense of poetic grandeur never lets up. – Andrew Pulver, Guardian, Mar 10, 2011

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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.

Man of Aran
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  • $19.99
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Released: 1934

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