2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Wild Indian
Starring Michael Greyeyes, Chaske Spencer, Jesse Eisenberg, Kate Bosworth, Phoenix Wilson, and Julian Gopal.
SYNOPSIS:
Two men learn to confront a traumatic secret they share involving the savage murder of a schoolmate.
If the joy of film festivals often lies in witnessing the emergence of little-known filmmakers on a grand stage, many are sure to leave Sundance 2021 buzzing about Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. and his feature debut
Wild Indian.
Painting with an epic, centuries-spanning canvas inside an impressively tight 90 minutes, Corbine Jr.’s uncommonly disciplined debut considers the familial, cultural, and communal ghosts plaguing two Indigenous men, in turn delivering a thriller harbouring a strange, haunting power.