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Songs My Brothers Taught Me

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Songs My Brothers Taught Me
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Collection: Kino Lorber
Format: DVD
Year: 2015
Director: Chloe Zhao
Genre: Drama
Cast: Irene Bedard, Dakota Brown, Cat Clifford
Runtime: 94
Language: English
Release Date: 2016-08-02
Description

The setting is the often starkly beautiful Badlands of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; most of the key players are young Lakota Native Americans who attend Little Wound High School. Johnny and his preteen sister, Jashaun, spend time on horseback when they're not selling illegal liquor or tattoo-designed apparel. Director Chloe Zhao captures the subtleties of a marginalized existence in which the historic culture of a people can't compete on a level playing field with the modern problems of poverty, alcoholism, and violence. Amazingly, she embroiders her tale with moments of breathtaking natural beauty that offset the despair her characters struggle against.