On this episode we dig into how Run Woman Run explores coming of age in your thirties through an Indigenous perspective. This episode features  Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and Contributing Editor Lindsay Pugh. On this episode:

• Coming of age in their 30s episodes (1:42)
• Run Woman Run (5:16)
• How the film depicts trauma (13:43)
• Asivak Koostachin as the spirit of Tom Longboat (19:00)
• The anti-romcom (24:02)
• Land depiction (34:37)
• Health and "tough love" (37:06)
• Why Run Woman Run should have been longer (1:00:13)
• What settler critics often miss (1:15:34)
• Conclusion (1:18:16)

Show Notes

• Read Alex's review of Run Woman Run
• Read Orla's interview with Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy director Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
• Read Laura Anne Harris' interview with The Road Forward director Marie Clements
• Read Alex's interview with Monkey Beach director Loretta Todd
• Read Alex's interview with Blood Quantum director Jeff Barnaby
• Read our list of the best Canadian films of 2021, including Night Raiders, Bootlegger, Red Snow, and Kímmapiiyipitssini
• Pre-order Existential detours: Joachim Trier's cinema of indecisions and revisions, the first book to ever be published on Joachim Trier.
• Stay tuned for Orla's interview with director Zoe Leigh Hopkins

Related episodes

• Ep. 89: Spinster and The Forty-Year-Old Version: Coming of age at forty
• Ep. 63: Indigenous YA, part 2
• Ep. 62: Indigenous YA, part 1
• Ep. 54: I Used to Go Here and Unexpected: Kris Rey’s thirtysomethings

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