Smoke Signals (1998)
Directed by Chris Eyre
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold's remains.
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Chris Eyre – the director of the excellent Native American flick Smoke Signals – runs aground in attempting to mix together a social commentary and a heady character study of two brothers on polar ends of existence.
Welcome to the class of Smoke Signals .
Director Chris Eyre's debut film, 1998's "Smoke Signals," was done so beautifully that you just had to expect similarly terrific things from whatever might follow it.
Like his popular 1998 debut, Smoke Signals, Chris Eyre's follow-up, Skins, is a humorless slice of family melodrama that functions as cut-rate ethnography.
Directed by Chris Eyre and shot entirely on Pine Ridge with no time for any of the charm he varnished on ''Smoke Signals'' four years ago, it's a rough, ungainly thing -- something of a Frontline documentary scrambled with a clunky family melodrama.
Writer Sherman Alexie and director Chris Eyre joined forces in 1998 to make the bittersweet comedy "Smoke Signals," a groundbreaking work in Native American filmmaking.