The Last of the Sea Women

Name: The Last of the Sea Women
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 11, 2024
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 63

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Apple TV+ | Release Date (Streaming): October 11, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: An extraordinary band of feisty grandmother warriors wage a spirited battle against vast oceanic threats. Often called real-life mermaids, the haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island are renowned for centuries of diving to the ocean floor—without oxygen —to harvest seafood for their livelihood. Today, with most haenyeo now in their 60s,An extraordinary band of feisty grandmother warriors wage a spirited battle against vast oceanic threats. Often called real-life mermaids, the haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island are renowned for centuries of diving to the ocean floor—without oxygen —to harvest seafood for their livelihood. Today, with most haenyeo now in their 60s, 70s, and 80s, their traditions and way of life are in imminent danger. But these fierce, funny, hardworking women refuse to give an inch, aided by a younger generation’s fight to revive their ancestral lifestyle through social media. … Expand

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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The Times Kevin Maher

Oct 10, 2024

There are no solutions offered here, alas, other than a call for awareness, and the film instead remains a beautifully photographed and elegiac depiction of a lifestyle that’s slowly fading even as the women within it burn bright. Read full review

John Anderson

Oct 10, 2024

The Last of the Sea Women is, like its subjects, beautiful and charming. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Marya E. Gates

Sep 10, 2024

Aside from its breathtaking underwater cinematography, Kim’s documentary is very plain in execution. At home and on the land, she uses simple camerawork to follow their everyday lives and a basic straight-to-camera interview style to capture their stories. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Oct 10, 2024

There is an important subject at the centre of this documentary from Korean-American film-maker Sue Kim, co-produced by Malala Yousafzai, but the film is finally let down by a bland and supercilious way of celebrating the women involved as a picturesque eco-feminist folk tradition, without actually tackling the hard questions their work is raising. Read full review

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