FILM
FANCY DANCE
WHAT LILY GLADSTONE DID NEXT
They were all out of chicken and mushroom Pot Noodles.
★★★★
OUT 28 JUNE (APPLE TV+) / CERT TBC / 90 MINS
DIRECTOR Erica Tremblay
CAST Lily Gladstone, Isabel Deroy-Olson, Shea Whigham, Ryan Begay, Audrey Wasilewski
PLOT When her sister disappears, Native American hustler Jax (Gladstone) defies the law to keep what’s left of her family together.
NATIVE AMERICAN STORIES on screen are still few and far between. Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon was a welcome addition to the canon last year, and now hot on its heels comes Fancy Dance, an assured narrative-feature debut from Native American writer-director Erica Tremblay. The common denominator between both movies is actor Lily Gladstone. But where Scorsese’s movie arguably moved the focus away from the Indigenous community as it progressed, this film puts both that community and the Oscar-nominated actor firmly in the spotlight.