Woman Walks Ahead (2017) (original) (raw)
The story follows Catherine Weldon, who moved from Brooklyn to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull keep the land for his people. Weldon wrote letters to the federal government on behalf of Sitting Bull and lived on the land for several years with her son.
The story follows Catherine Weldon, who moved from Brooklyn to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull keep the land for his people. Weldon wrote letters to the federal government on behalf of Sitting Bull and lived on the land for several years with her son. (less)
Director: Susanna White
Writer: Steven Knight
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Sam Rockwell, Ciar�n Hinds, Michael Nouri, David Midthunder, Bill Camp
Producer: Andrea Calderwood
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Review by Brian Orndorf, June 28, 2018
5 / 10
�Woman Walks Ahead� is based on a real relationship between portrait painter Caroline Weldon and Sitting Bull, with the pair sparking to one another while she assigned herself the mission to capture his likeness on canvas. However, to make the relationship meaningful on screen, writer Steven Knight has softened many of its sharp corners, hoping to locate elements of attraction between two people on opposite ends of the cultural spectrum. �Woman Walks Ahead� doesn�t becomes a Harlequin romance novel, but it certainly threatens to break out in heaving chests and wind-blown hair, with director Su ...read more...
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