Skins (2002)
Directed by Chris Eyre
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
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I haven’t seen this much pork up on the silver screen since Mickey Rourke in Barfly .
Like Michael Apted?s superior "Incident at Oglala" the film was actually shot in and around the Pine Ridge reservation itself, home of the Lakota Sioux and the famed massacre of Wounded Knee, where over 100 Lakota men, women, and children lost their lives.
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.