Criticizing perspectives in Killers of the Flower Moon

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Christopher Côté joins me to unpack comments he made on the red carpet for Killers of the Flower Moon. The language consultant who taught Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio how to speak Osage appreciated how Scorsese captured the culture but was also critical about how the film’s perspective priviledged the narrative of Ernest Burkhart, the white villain, over Mollie Kyle, the Indigenous woman, whose story the movie should have been about. Read more about Killers of the Flower moon in Zoomer Magazine, where I have exclusive interviews with Martin Scorsese, Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Chief Standing Bear and Tantoo Cardinal. Read those here.