Sun, Moon and Feather

"We three-my echo, my shadow, and me...": Part Andrews Sisters parody, part Maysles-like documentary on three natural nuts, Sun, Moon and Feather is a wacky, inventive and ultimately very moving approach to a life story. Actually, three life stories, as a three-person voice-over tells one tale of a family of immigrants from the San Blas Islands adjusting to life in Brooklyn. Sun, Moon and Feather (Muriel Miguel, Gloria Miguel, and Lisa Mayo, otherwise known as Spiderwoman Theater), regress by some forty years to relate their contradictory impressions of a shared childhood. The family's resourcefulness in adapting to Americans' image of the Indian is both hilarious and pathetic, while the disjunction between the idyll of home movies and the brutality of memory ("My father was a drunk") jars the diaristic form into the present tense. With its sidelong approach to pathos, on the one hand, and memory, on the other; and with its fantastically painted backdrops, this is the unlikely meeting of George Kuchar and Alain Resnais.

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