Beans

Name: Beans
Genre: Drama
Released: November 5, 2021
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Caroline Gelinas, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Dawn Ford, Jay Cardinal Villeneuve, Joel Montgrand

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FilmRise | Release Date: November 5, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Caroline Gelinas, D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Dawn Ford, Jay Cardinal Villeneuve, Joel Montgrand, Kiawentiio, Paulina Alexis, Rainbow Dickerson, Taio Gélinas, Violah Beauvais

Summary: Twelve-year-old Beans (Kiawentiio Tarbell) is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence; forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.

Director: Tracey Deer

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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Nikki Baughan

Nov 8, 2021

Tracey Deer’s feature debut Beans vibrates with ferocious anger and righteous pride. Read full review

Ronda Racha Penrice

Nov 5, 2021

Deer, a rare filmmaker of Mohawk descent, portrays in Beans the hope and love that help people thrive in the face of such hatred. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Nov 8, 2021

Beans is a thoughtful, stirring reflection by someone who survived it all, quietly demanding acknowledgement not just of her land, but of her life. Read full review

The Film Stage Jared Mobarak

Nov 6, 2021

Violence becomes both a weapon and a tool throughout the proceedings while words do the same since both must sometimes be wielded as the former in order to be successful as the latter. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Nov 6, 2021

Deer has made a richly-detailed debut feature about an ugly piece of Canadian history, and it’s to her credit that she lets young heroine see the escalation from both sides, and lets the viewer see what this does to her. Read full review

Alex Saveliev

Mar 23, 2021

It feels timely and urgent, and its phenomenal young heroine ensures it doesn’t become overly mawkish, preachy, or prosaic. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Nov 5, 2021

With its coming-of-age and its historical context, Beans concerns ideas of pain and conflict, but it’s too timid to really engage those ideas, to honor their discomfort aside from how horrific discrimination is (a few scenes of the family being ambushed by racist Canadian citizens are upsetting, but played too directly for tears). Read full review

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