Songs My Brother Taught Me
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Parting Shot: Chloé Zhao
When Filmmaker interviewed Chloé Zhao in 2013 for our 25 New Faces series, the Beijing-born writer/director said she was inspired by her childhood in China to set her first feature within the Native American community at North Dakota’s Lakota Pine Ridge reservation. “There are lies everywhere,” she said. “You felt like you were never going to be able to get out.” That feeling of struggle, and of a desire to escape, suffuses Zhao’s evocative Songs My Brother Taught Me, a Sundance Dramatic Competition entry that receives its New York premiere this spring at Film Forum. Her teenage protagonists — Johnny […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 20, 2016
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