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Utu
Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 1983
For me it is blood for blood. Utu.
– Matu (Merata Mita)
Utu must rate as the most powerful, expert and audience-appealing film yet to be wholly conceived and executed in this country.
– Mike Nicolaidi, reviewing Utu in Variety, February 9 1983
What's the time Mr Wolf?
– Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace) to an ill-fated clergyman (Martyn Sanderson)
[Geoff Murphy] seems to be directing with a grin on his face.
– Reviewer Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, 15 October 1984
...I wrote something that was fairly bad, but it was not dissimilar to the story of River Queen as it turned out, many years later. And Geoff said 'I don't want to do that, I wanna do this' ... I did try and give it a contemporary echo, which at the time was the tour, the rugby tour.
– Co-writer Keith Aberdein on his contributions to Utu, in his ScreenTalk interview for NZ On Screen
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