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Cannes Film Review: 'The Dead and the Others'

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An admirable, often fascinating fictionalized portrait of the Krahô people of Brazil seen via a young man resisting his destiny as a shaman.
An indigenous teenager falls ill when he resists tribal duties and his destiny as a shaman in João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora’s ethnographically sincere “The Dead and the Others.” Handsomely shot on 16mm to draw out the region’s warm organic tones, the film is an admirable, often fascinating fictionalized portrait of the Krahô people […]

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