Moana

1926

English

6.8

♡ 4

87%

Robert J. Flaherty Director

Ta'avale as Moana Tama

Tama as Moana's Father

Fa'amgase as Moana's Fiancé

T'ugaita as Moana's Mother

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized “Gauguin idyll,” the film celebrates daily rituals, communal traditions, and the passage into adulthood, suffused with what Flaherty called “pride of beauty, pride of strength.”