Moving the Cinderella story into the WWII-era deep south of America, Ashpet stylishly plays with race, cultural memory and the drab but gleaming magic of the deep countryside.
Appropriate for the quite young, but interesting to those older. You'll never look at saltine crackers quite the same way again.
Watch for stories-within-the-story, and the interweaving of different aspirational mythologies. Louise Anderson, an African-American storyteller who appeared in very few films during her lifetime, lights up the story.
It is hard to miss that film maker Tom Davenport is first and foremost a literary anthropologist - he seeds the narrative with hints of things deeper than just entertainment.
Appropriate for the quite young, but interesting to those older. You'll never look at saltine crackers quite the same way again.
Watch for stories-within-the-story, and the interweaving of different aspirational mythologies. Louise Anderson, an African-American storyteller who appeared in very few films during her lifetime, lights up the story.
It is hard to miss that film maker Tom Davenport is first and foremost a literary anthropologist - he seeds the narrative with hints of things deeper than just entertainment.
