Waititi has said that he doesn’t make “Cannes-style films”: the kind of depressing dramas where, as he once put it, “everyone is a prostitute and they all die in the end.” But he also doesn’t make conventional comedies, with their two-dimensional characters and steady barrage of jokes. ![]() Both movies felt radical-the unfamiliar characters and situations, the startling mix of brutality and humor-but also sweetly affectionate, even loving. Two of these, Boy and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, featured primarily Maori characters and actors and were set in poor, rural areas similar to where Waititi was raised. ![]() ![]() Waititi grew up in New Zealand-his father was Maori of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui descent, his mother Russian-Jewish-and spent his thirties making small, cultishly popular films.
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