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MOVIE REVIEW: The surprising beauty of ‘Iti Mapupukaw,’ one of 2023’s best films

From the opening shot of Carl Joseph Papa’s ‘Iti Mapupukaw’ alone, you could already tell that you were in for a visual feast. The film opens in the late morning in the bedroom of its main character, Eric, as he takes a call from his mother. The film is animated via rotoscope, an animation style where the film is shot first with actors acting out the scenes in a location or studio – in this case, it appears like an actual location, designed meticulously by production designe…