Man of Aran Reviews
February 6, 2018
This film deserves appreciation and support more for its intention than for its achievement.
March 10, 2011
Flaherty's sense of poetic grandeur never lets up.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
March 10, 2011
Sadly, this trenchant tribute to heroic fortitude will always be remembered more for its artifice than its artistry.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
March 9, 2011
A classic 1934 documentary from Robert Flaherty, pioneering forefather of the genre (see 1922's Nanook Of The North).
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
February 26, 2008
The film is a canny blend of observation and creation.
February 26, 2008
The sea is the villain and the quest for food the plot of this peasants-among-peasants picture, which rates high artistically.
October 18, 2006
This will not be for everyone but there are a number of beautiful shots.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
June 24, 2006
Mightily impressive.
June 3, 2006
Breathtaking photography.
Full Review | Original Score: B-
April 9, 2006
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.
January 28, 2006
Robert Flaherty, the mellow wanderer with a camera, has made a memorable film out of the tragic and beautiful fundamentals of human behavior.
Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5
July 6, 2005
Read More | Original Score: 3/5
September 30, 2003
A spellbinding look at an extreme way of life.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4
August 22, 2003
Read More | Original Score: 5/5
May 24, 2003
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.
May 23, 2003
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
May 12, 2003
Robert Flaherty's film, Man of Aran, follows a similar formula as his Nanook of the North, and probably includes just as much fakery. I
January 1, 2000
The photography is brilliant, the best of any of Flaherty's work.
March 2, 2004
Not a great film because filmmaker Robert Flaherty does not seem to understand fiction.
Full Review | Original Score: 65/100