Te Ata Works As a Historical Document But Not As a Work of Cinema

by Kathy FennessyQ’orianka Kilcher is the star of Te Ata. Q’orianka KilcherTe Ata
Q’orianka Kilcher, who held her own with Christian Bale and Colin Farrell in The New World, assumes the title role in this admiring, respectful biopic (Kilcher was 15 when she played Pocahontas in the Terrence Malick film). Mary Thompson, her name at the outset, is a theatrically-inclined young Chickasaw woman in pre-statehood Oklahoma who plans to get an education and make something of herself. I