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Nonfiction filmmaking pioneer Robert Flaherty's first sound feature elaborates on themes presented in his two previous major works, Nanook of the North and Moana. In all four of his major features, including Louisiana Story, Flaherty explored the relationship of man to his natural environment. This film was shot between 1931 and 1933 on the Aran Islands, west of Ireland's Galway Bay. Flaherty's screen "family" was actually composed of three unrelated islanders chosen for their photogenic appeal:
Apr 25, 1934 Wide
May 20, 2003
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The sea is the villain and the quest for food the plot of this peasants-among-peasants picture, which rates high artistically.
Robert Flaherty, the mellow wanderer with a camera, has made a memorable film out of the tragic and beautiful fundamentals of human behavior.
The photography is brilliant, the best of any of Flaherty's work.
Flaherty's sense of poetic grandeur never lets up.
Sadly, this trenchant tribute to heroic fortitude will always be remembered more for its artifice than its artistry.
A classic 1934 documentary from Robert Flaherty, pioneering forefather of the genre (see 1922's Nanook Of The North).
The film is a canny blend of observation and creation.
This will not be for everyone but there are a number of beautiful shots.
Mightily impressive.
Breathtaking photography.
Flaherty made Man of Aran less a window into Aran life in the 20th Century than his interpretation of a state of rugged grace that romantic writers such as W.B. Yeats and William Synge projected onto the 19th Century.
...a good print of the film plus a collection of no-fluff supplementary extras that would fill out a film school course in Flaherty 101.
Supplements on the disc include a documentary from 1977 called 'How the Myth Was Made.'
Not a great film because filmmaker Robert Flaherty does not seem to understand fiction.
A spellbinding look at an extreme way of life.
The realism of the film is outstanding, the images are stunning and decades later it's a film that stands as a powerful classic of its kind.
Robert Flaherty is hailed in many circles as being a genius of documentary filmmaking and, in a sense, the O.G. of it too. He's an explorer turned filmmaker, who made some of his bold explorations into some of the most visually satisfying films of the first half of the 20th century. Man of Aran is a film he made in
September 12, 2008A good documentary, it of course lacks the unique strength of Nanook but it is throughoutly enjoyable. It shows the rough life of a community which, beyond the rather romantic tone of the film suffers in the sternest of environment. I'd say the main problem of the film is that one feels that this time the director does
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