2020 · drama · indigenous · coming-of-age
Beans
Directed by Tracey Deer1h 32m2020
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
Our read: Beans (2020) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · indigenous · coming-of-age entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / indigenous, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
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