Brenna and Joe check out Tracey Deer's Indigenous Canadian film, Beans (2020), which we've both been eager to check out for years.
Pre-teen actor Kiawentiio gives an incredible performance as the title character in a film that mixes coming of age elements with historical re-enactments of the 1990 Oka Crisis, when settler colonialists tried to take over Indigenous land to build a golf course and a 78 day stand-off followed.
It's a solid film, though we're more invested in the historical details than some of the traumatic elements that unexpectedly develop in the last act.
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Theme music: Letra “Like A Bird”
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