![]() ![]() ![]() Because Grandmother raises sheep, the audience gets glimpses of the weaving art form from start to beautiful finish. Navajo weaver Sarah Natani portrays Grandmother, a constant and hushed force. When Benny boasts that “Mick Fleetwood is the best drummer ever,” she replies “clearly you’ve never been to a pow-wow before.” After learning that Benny is from San Diego, she christens her cuz “Shamu” for the Sea World attraction. Fry knows so much more than she lets on - and she lets on a lot. Voices of SXSW: How 'Adult Spring Break' Helps Keep Austin WeirdĬharley Hogan is deeply watchable as Benny’s pudgy cousin and guide. ![]() 'Furies' Review: A Furious Tale of Female Revenge Set in a Hell-on-Earth Vision of Ho Chi Minh City 'Late Night With the Devil' Review: A '70s Chat Show Becomes Must-Unsee TV ![]() “Frybread Face and Me” - which premiered at SXSW - is his affable and insightful foray into fiction storytelling. Luther, of the Navajo, Hopi and Pueblo Laguna nations, has made feature documentaries. Keir Tallman stars as Benny, the “Me” of writer-director Billy Luther’s warm debut narrative feature. But before he gets on the bus headed east, adult Benny in voice-over offers a caveat: “If you think no one does dysfunction like Fleetwood Mac, then you haven’t met my family.” It’s 1990 and a summer that initially smacks of exile and punishment becomes one of discovery - self-discovery to be sure, but also cultural and familial. It’s his fondness for the band, its witchy vocalist Stevie Nicks as well as for dolls (“action figures,” he corrects) that has his parents sending him from San Diego to his maternal grandmother on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona. In “Frybread Face and Me,” Benny Lovell might be a few years away from the edge of 17, but the 12-year-old Indian kid has a passion for Fleetwood Mac. ![]()
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