Utu Redux

A landmark of New Zealand cinema composed in images of shocking, feverish power, this blistering Kiwi western is an audacious vision of anticolonial rage that’s been championed by the likes of Pauline Kael and Quentin Tarantino. In 1870s New Zealand, Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace), a Māori warrior working as a scout for the colonial troops, finds his tribe massacred by the very army he is helping. Anguished and betrayed, be vows to exact retribution—“utu”—on those occupying his people’s land. Originally released in 1983 and distributed internationally in a compromised recut, the film is now presented in its definitive director’s cut, UTU REDUX.

Starring Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Eliott