FOCUS: AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND &bull Like real life, the heart of Apron Strings beats and bubbles in the kitchen, as everyone is chopping, stirring, serving and, occasionally, eating. This humorous, deliciously filmed cakes-and-curry family drama dishes up the clashing ethnicities and generational divides of New Zealand's South Auckland suburbs. In parallel stories, two mothers seek to protect their fatherless sons from familial secrets and dysfunction. Yet the surface contrasts—the bland, milk-white, sugar-sweet Anglo Kiwis versus the spicy brown Indian and Asian immigrants—only highlight their commonalities. While glamorous Anita, a TV celebrity chef, feels threatened by son Michael's search for his Indian-ness, dowdy Lorna clings to her old-fashioned bakery and makes unwanted dinners for 35-year-old layabout son Barry, who tosses them down the sink. Eventually, both women recognize the damage they're doing in the name of love, and decide to change. The resulting dish is a soothing multicultural mélange as piquant and creamy as hot chai. —Jeff Campbell
Running time: 89 Country: New Zealand Category: World Cinema Directed by: Sima Urale Producer: Rachel Gardner Screenwriters: Shuchi Kothari, Dianne Taylor Cinematographer: Rewa Harre Editor: Eric De Beus
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Screening:
Sun. Oct 18th, 2009 @ 2:30 PM - Smith Rafael Film Center, San Rafael CA
This film has gone to RUSH. If seats become available, they will be sold to patrons in the RUSH line on a first come, first served basis. Cash only, no discounts.
