A few months after captivating the world's critics and audiences with her role in Los asesinos de la luna, Lily Gladstone has returned triumphantly with Fancy Dance, the new film she stars in. It's a road movie directed by Erica Tremblay (Reservation Dogs) and available for streaming.

The film follows Jax (Gladstone), a hustler who tries to take care of her niece Roki (Isabel Deroy-Olson) after her mother's sudden disappearance, something that often happens regularly in Native American reservations.

Roki is taken in by her aunt and together they carry out several heists. However, social services eventually determine that it is not appropriate for Jax to be Roki's guardian and she ends up staying with her grandfather (Shea Whigham). The thing is, Jax is not willing to lose her niece, so she decides to take matters into her own hands.

After a successful premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last year, Fancy Dance landed on Apple TV+ at the end of June. The title refers to the Fancy War Dance, a dance style believed to have been created by a tribe between the 1920s and 1930s to preserve its culture and religion.

The film uses this popular dance to shed light on the margins and as a backdrop to show the discrimination faced by indigenous women, such as the disappearances of many of them. There is also a lot of luminosity in the film and memorable scenes between the protagonists.

After portraying Mollie Burkhart in Martin Scorsese's film, Gladstone has also starred in Under the Bridge: The Murder of Reena Virk, a Hulu series premiering on Disney+ on July 10. It is based on the real murder case of a fourteen-year-old girl in a small town in Canada. On the other hand, Deroy-Olson is known for her performance in Three Pines, an Amazon Prime Video series.

The cast also includes Ryan Begay (Yellowstone), Shea Whigham (Mission: Impossible - Fallout), Crystle Lightning (Three Pines), Audrey Wasilewski, Tamara Podemski, and Arianne Martin (Reservation Dogs).

Behind the scenes

Fancy Dance is directed by Erica Tremblay, known for her work as a writer on the series Reservation Dogs. In addition to directing the film, Tremblay also serves as a writer alongside Miciana Alise.

This is Erica Tremblay's directorial debut, offering a nuanced story about the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States, as well as the process of overcoming those who know them.

The producers are Deidre Backs, Tremblay, Heather Rae, Nina Yang Bongiovi, and Tommy Oliver, along with Bird Runningwater, Gladstone herself, Forest Whitaker, and Charlotte Koh.

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence