Sydney Dispatch 4: Rain of the Children

“Maybe you can never really know someone…and maybe that’s all right.” So concludes New Zealander Vincent Ward in Rain of the Children, narrating the docudrama he wrote, directed, produced, appears inâ€"and already made 30 years earlier. Ward enters into a seamless co-production with himself, recapitulating In Spring One Plants Alone, the 1978 documentary in which he recorded the daily existence of Puhi, an elderly Maori woman from the Tuhoe tribe. Acknowledging sensitive youth’s bluster and cer