The Map Reader

$“Writer/director/editor Brodie - via a deftly fractured narrative, editing choices that favour character and insight over action, and a script that leaves plenty of white space on the page for the actors to work with - allows The Map Reader to emerge as a rare and special film.” Graeme Tuckett, The Dominion Post$

“Befitting its human concerns, this is driven by the great work of an impressive cast. Writer/director Harold Brodie balances the performances adeptly within the ebb and flow of the story’s shifts through time and there are moments of striking imagery. Plenty to admire here then - The Map Reader is another film New Zealand can be proud of.”
Andreas Heinemann, Flicks.co.nz

“Here is a film which will resonate with so many New Zealanders who are having, or who remember, their childhoods and adolescence. There are moments of sheer absorption as it delivers a New Zealand sensitivity and understanding which is at once a romance of boyhood and a small town idyll, but at the same time, carries with it that darker centre which is part of our culture and our art.”
Sam Edwards, The Waikato Times

“The sensitive treatment of the story and its direction, stepped outside filmmaking and into the area of storytelling as art. Both enlightening and inspiring, this is the kind of independent film that not only tells its story (the journey of a young man struggling to become a man without a father), but lets us reexamine our own lives without judging others.”
Vincent Duvall, DancesWithFilms