Songs my Brothers Taught Me

27/9/2015,11:00,ODEON Οπερα 1 (Δημοσιογραφική Προβολή) 28/9/2015,19:45,Δαναός 1 30/9/2015,18:30,Δαναός 2

This year's most beautiful coming-of-age story captures the hardships of two siblings living in an Indian reservation after the death of their father. 18-year-old Johnny dreams of a life outside the community, but doesn't want to leave his sister behind with their alcoholic mother. Realism and sensitivity in a film that bewitched Sundance.

Johnny and his 11-year-old sister Jashuan live with their mother on a Indian reservation in South Dakota. They have an older brother in jail and lots more siblings by an absentee cowboy father they never met, who worked rodeos and had at least 25 other kids with other women! When Johnny finds out he died in an accident, he starts getting mixed up with the wrong side of the law, trying to scrape some money together to follow his girlfriend to LA, where she’s moving to study. Jashuan, not wanting to get left behind with their alcoholic mother, starts building her own future by becoming a local tattoo artist’s apprentice. A disarmingly tender coming-of-age story set against the Pine Ridge Reservation with enough lyrical imagery to remind you of Terence Malick and a young David Gordon Green. One of the films that left a deep mark at this year’s Sundance.

Songs my Brothers Taught Me / Τραγούδια που μου... from NyxtesPremieras

Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Chloé Zhao
Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Chloé Zhao
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Joshua James Richards
Μουσική / Music
Peter Golub
Μοντάζ / Editor
Alan Canant
Ηθοποιοί / Principal Cast
John Reddy, Jashaun St. John
Irene Bedard, Taysha Fuller
Travis Lone Hill, Eléonore Hendricks

ΗΠΑ / USA
2015
Εγχρωμο / Color
DCP
94'
Αγγλικά / English

Publication date: 2015-09-12 00:00:00

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