Friday, June 14, 2019

The Man Who Lost His Head 2007


     Ian Bennett lives in the UK and he works at a National Museum.  The Museum has received a letter asking for the return of a mystical Maori relic to a New Zealand village.  Ian travels to the village to talk to the people about the sacred mask.  Ian has been instructed by the museum that under no circumstances will the mask be returned to the village?  A promotion for Ian is riding on the outcome of his trip.
     The scenery in this film is very beautiful and the Maori people are very unique.  The people don’t understand what a museum in the UK is really like?  They decide they will build their own museum in their village in order to have the proper place for the mask when it returns.  Ian tries to get them to realize there isn’t a chance for them to have the proper place and the UK will never return their property?  Instead of changing the village people they begin to change Ian!!  Everything he has worked for in is adult life, is it really been worth the effort?  Does the mask really belong in the UK?  The Maori people place so much faith and reverence in the mask.  To the museum, it's just another artifact?  3 ½* (I liked this movie)   

93 min, TV Movie Comedy directed by Terry Johnson with Martin Clunes, John Callen, Gareth Reeves, John Leigh, Paki Cherrington, Nicola Kawana, Gordon Toi, Ben Kelly, Patrick Kake, Dominic Ona-Ariki, Natalija Butler, Nikita Butler, Julie Crean, Calvin Tuteao, Elizabeth McRae.

Note:  Imdb 6.8 out of 10, Amazon 4* out of 5* with 79 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Bethells Beach Swanson; Auckland War Memorial Museum, Domain Drive, The Domain, Parnell; Britomart Transport Centre, Queen Street, Auckland Central Business District, Aukland, New Zealand.  There is a technical mistake 13 minutes into this film.  A woman asks her son what he is doing?  He says he is “re-configuring a hard drive.”  He is clearly working on a computer power supply and not a hard drive?

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