Heartland Feature Films
TVNZ Heartland brings viewers a selection of outstanding
New Zealand feature films every Friday at 7.30pm (repeating on
Sundays at 4pm).
The Price Of Milk - Friday 25 May
The Price Of Milk is the second feature from director Harry
Sinclair and producer Fiona Copland, whose film Topless Women Talk
About Their Lives swept the awards pool in New Zealand and has
screened in 37 countries around the world.
A fairy tale love story, The Price Of Milk is full of magic and
Sinclair's trademark humour, all set on a New Zealand dairy farm.
"It's a highly original film from a director with an idiosyncratic
view," says Copland. "It's also a hugely romantic love story, in
the old epic style, full of glorious images and lyrical music. But
whichever way you describe it, nothing in the film is at all what
you expect."
The film stars Danielle Cormack (Topless Women Talk About Their
Lives) and Karl Urban (The Truth About Demons) as Lucinda and Rob,
a dairy farming couple so perfectly in love at the beginning of the
movie they have nowhere to go but awry. The cast also includes
Willa O'Neill (Scarfies) and Michael Lawrence (Came a Hot Friday)
as Drosophila and Bernie, Lucinda and Rob's respective best
friends, and Rangi Motu as Auntie, a mysterious and magical old
lady whose influence seems to control their fate.
Mr Wrong - Friday 1 June
In some of the best and brightest New Zealand documentaries,
Gaylene Preston has exhibited a flair for demonstrating that things
are not always as we commonly perceive them. So its not surprising
that her first fiction feature, Mr Wrong, may sound like a
contradiction in terms: a thriller with very little in the way of
explicit blood-letting or special effects.
Meg (Heather Bolton) is a nice girl from the country who moves to the city and declares her autonomy by buying herself a gorgeous large Jag. But things soon get spooky.
Gradually, she is forced to acknowledge that this car is making some most uncarlike noises and it's making her the object of the attentions of a thoroughly unpleasant young man who seems to materialise out of thin air.
