Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Chronicling one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles, the film follows a group of exiles—arrivals from the Southwest reservations—as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance.
Chronicling one night in the lives of young Native American men and women living in the Bunker Hill district of Los Angeles, the film follows a group of exiles—arrivals from the Southwest reservations—as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance.
A gem of American cinema that played Venice before falling into cult obscurity, Kent MacKenzie’s The Exiles is a raw, jazzy vision of urban life. Inspired by Italian Neorealism, yet filtered through a Beat lexicon, the film captures the often-unseen experience of Native Americans with vitality.