Dances With Wolves (1990)
Kevin Costner makes his directorial début while staring along side Mary McDonnell in this western that picked up 6 Oscars. A US soldier goes out to live alone in Indian territory and makes friends with the Native Americans.
The plot and characters of this film are fairly simple but the film still manages to fill it's 3 hour run time without feeling slow or full of padding. Mainly what the film does is provide a good snap shot of a way of life that has since disappeared and some great shots of the landscape. Maybe taking it's cue from Stagecoach (1939) the most impressive sequences is the buffalo hunt which was achieved before the proliferation of CGI when film makers actually had to do stuff for real. The film may lack a little depth but Native Americans were long over due a fair portrayal in cinema.
4/5
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