Ten Canoes (2006)
This movie starts out with a voiceover in English that makes it sound like a National Geographic special. You know the kind - "the dingo stalks the gazelle over the open plains" - and all that. When it finally does get into the story, it switches one of Australia's aboriginal languages, which was a cool idea, but it still sounds like something you'd watch on PBS. It switches back and forth between black and white and color but with the same actors and characters, so that the overall effect is jarring and confusing. With three layers of narration for the same action, two of which are in a completely unknown language with sparse subtitles, the actual story gets lost.
My Netflix rating: 2 stars
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