Tamahine (1963)
3/10
The major premise to this film makes little sense when you think about it....absolutely none!
17 February 2018
Tamahine (Nancy Kwan) is a teenager who has spent her entire life living in Polynesia. Then, out of the blue, she is sent to live with a relative in England...a culture as unlike the British one as you can find! Oddly, no one ever thinks about trying to educate and acclamate her to the English customs and instead they deny her normal sexual drives and attempt to force her to be like a lady...without ever teaching her was being a lady means. This really, really annoyed me because it goes by a very dim assumption--that these smart, educated people in England are in fact total morons. So, instead of realism, the story plays it all for laughs as again and again, Tamahine does things which upset her tightly wound guardian, the headmaster of a boys school! My feeling is that the film had a decent idea for a story but instead of playing it out intelligently, it went for cheap laughs and cliches. It's a shame, as Nancy Kwan is excellent and radiant...and deserved better.
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