At first glance, there isn’t much happening in the Black Mesa plateau region of Arizona, where the sleepy Navajo nation town spotlighted in The Blessing is situated. There are hard-working people, restless dreamers, and sprawling families, the type of authentic and sympathetic blue-collar characters who populate films like Chloe Zhao’s The Rider, yet ar…
‘The Blessing’ Looks Inside The Navajo Nation
