Aotearoa New Zealand Cinema

The long, languid days at the end of a summer holiday. Slices of lemon for the gin and tonics. Diving off the back of the boat. Grown-ups at parties. Rain is an evocative mood piece, enriched by gorgeous visuals, about the dissolution of a marriage as a mother reaches out for excitement and escape and her 13-year-old daughter explores her own budding sexuality ...

An elegiac evocation of Frame’s acclaimed autobiographical trilogy which is both cinematically stunning and tenderly intimate in its depiction of a woman constantly shadowed by death who wrote herself into life. Beautifully shot, it also displays a keen, often eerily accurate eye for the New Zealand past ...