Film review: Wunderkinder

The stilted dialogue Rosenmuller feeds his young stars could certainly be better delivered, says David Larsen.

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8th September, 2012

Film review

Imagine yourself taking a gun and walking through all of greater Auckland, shooting everyone you meet. Imagine that you keep doing this, indefatigably, Terminator-style and, somehow, no one stops you. Imagine that you chase down every last living soul in the most populous region of New Zealand. The pile of bodies you would leave in your wake would fall about 100,000 short of the number of Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust. That is an ugly way to express an ugly fact, and forgive me if you find it offensive. Here is what I find offensive: polite, superficially tasteful art that attempts ...

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