There are a lot of films based on personal experience at this year’s SXSW, and Billy Luther’s narrative feature debut is one of the few that actually makes you wish it could go on longer.
Using his authentic experience as a rough map rather than a beat sheet, Luther hits on something very special here, exploring universal themes of childhood and family in ways that transcend the specificity of its setting.
Taika Waititi’s involvement as executive producer is understandable, not because it reflects his recent success in bringing a more subversively silly strain of comedy to Marvel movies but because, in its lovely, understated it way, it has all the simple warmth and heart of the New Zealander’s earlier works.
Similarly, production company World of Wonder, the creators of Rupaul’s Drag Race, also helped shepherd this story to the screen, but this not to suggest that Frybread Face And Me is preaching to the LGBTQ+ choir and destined for that audience alone.
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