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River Queen is a 2005 war drama film written and directed by Vincent Ward and starring Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland, Cliff Curtis, Temuera Morrison and Stephen Rea. The film opened to mixed reviews but performed well at the box office in New Zealand.
Apr 2, 2024 · River Queen is the story of Sarah O'Brien or 'Queenie' and was inspired by the tales of two kidnapped women in New Zealand and the Chief Riwha Titokowaru who led the last resistance movement against the advancing British colonial army.
Jan 26, 2006 · With Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland, Cliff Curtis, Temuera Morrison. An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
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Philip French: Vincent Ward's River Queen is set in 1860s New Zealand, the same period as The Piano.
In 1860s New Zealand, a young Irish woman finds herself caught on both sides of the line during the wars between Maori tribes and the British colonial army. Sarah O’Brien (Samantha Morton) has grown up among soldiers in a frontier garrison on Te Awa Nui, the Great River.
River Queen. Drama | 19th Century. Colonialism. An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah (Samantha Morton) and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonisation of New Zealand.
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Feb 12, 2008 · A yearning panpipe flutter or an obtrusive slo-mo flashback is never far away in Vincent Ward ’s over-egged and under-cooked period piece, ‘River Queen’, a limp and unfocused jungle epic about a...
