Ka-Pai

Keisha Castle-Hughes continues to win over critics with her star-turn as Pai in Whale Rider. USA Today calls her “the discovery of the summer,” and the Miami Herald hails her performance as “the best … of the year – man, woman, adult, kid, virtual, you name it.” Another Miami Herald feature cites Whale Rider as an example of the emerging post-feminist aesthetic in film, and a welcome relief from such high-gloss girl-power flicks as Tomb Raider and Charlie’s Angels: “Lara Croft can have the shark. Pai gets to ride the whale, and it actually means something.”