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Sep 3, 2021 · Wild Indian: Directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.. With Michael Greyeyes, Chaske Spencer, Jesse Eisenberg, Kate Bosworth. Two men learn to confront a traumatic secret they share involving the savage murder of a schoolmate.
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Jan 30, 2021 · Jan 30, 2021 1:37pm PT. ‘Wild Indian’ Review: A Native Antihero Wrestles With Ghosts From His Past. Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr.’s debut feature finds an artist wrestling with how his...
So begins Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr.’s bleak and disquietingly self-loathing “Wild Indian,” which adapts that folkloric tone into the airless language of a contemporary serial-killer drama. We learn that the Ojibwe man was a little sicker than his legend suggested.
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Sep 2, 2021 · This more-than-cautionary note sets the tone for the First Nations writer-director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s symbolically rich and subtle thriller focused on two cousins who share a...
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In an opening scene a Native American man with smallpox hunts in the woods while at home his wife is dying. Makwa Gi-Zheg is a young Ojibwe boy in Wisconsin in 1988. Abused by his father and bullied at school, his only friend is his cousin Teddo. Makwa develops a crush on a girl and is envious of James, who draws the girl's attentions. Makwa's teac...
The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival on January 30, 2021, in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section. In May 2021, Vertical Entertainmentacquired distribution rights to the film.
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes surveyed 65 critics and, categorizing the reviews as positive or negative, assessed 59 as positive and 6 as negative for an 91% rating. The website's consensus reads, "While Wild Indian might have benefited from a more probing approach to its themes, it's held together by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.'s ski...
Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. (born 1989) is an American and Ojibwe filmmaker from the Bad River Reservation in Wisconsin. His debut feature, Wild Indian (2021), was screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
Feb 3, 2021 · Beyond that narrative, writer/ director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. takes a much deeper dive into cultural trauma, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! Wild Indian is, at one level, the story of young Mawkwa (Phoenix Wilson), an indigenous boy in Wisconsin, who is abused at home, bullied at school, and develops severe emotional problems as a result.
