Film · 1990 · Epic
Dances With Wolves
Directed by Kevin Costner
1990
★ 5.3 editorial score
Costner directed it himself, shot a third of it in Lakota with subtitles, and everyone expected disaster: a Union officer posted to an empty frontier fort starts keeping company with his neighbors.
“His subject, in the most general terms, is the settling of the American West and, more specifically, the conflicts during the 1860s as white settlers began to move in larger numbers into Indian territory...if Costner didn't have the talent to match his ambition, the project might have been a disastrous folly, an act of megastar self-indulgence. That he does have it qualifies as some kind of minor miracle.”
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