Film
Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese's depiction of the Osage killings
Paramount
by Philippa Hawker •
Janae Collins as Reta, Lily Gladstone as Mollie Kyle, Cara Jade Myers as Anna Brown, Jillian Dion as Minnie (photograph by Melinda Sue Gordon and courtesy of Paramount).
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon begins and ends with a ceremony, starting with a ritual of mourning and concluding with affirmation of community. In between, over the course of 206 minutes, it is a story of murder, manipulation, and survival, an engrossing, deliberate work that also has expansive, unexpected moments and disconcerting juxtapositions. It is packed with vivid cameos and has three striking performances at its centre.
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