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mental health.
Still, any gal who starts her day by
double-fisting Boston cream dough—
nuts for breakfast ismy kind of
woman, and Beck’s running scenes
convey the lingering struggle of that
middling stage of getting back into '
shape, when even moving forward
with shuffle steps can awaken a pain—
ful side-stitch.
Hebert has the talent to carry
more prominent leading lady roles,
and as a fan of obscure supporting
character actors, I appreciated see-
ing Gary Farmer of “Reservation
Dogs,” “Smoke Signals” and “Forever
Knight.”
Sunday: Day 4
Sam l\|ow
“Sam Now” sees virtually lifelong
filmmaker Reed Harkness —~ he start-
ed shooting amateur, improvised films
when he turned 18, originally starring
his seven-years-younger half-brother
Sam '— finally tackling the real-life
mystery at the heart of his otherwise
average, middle-class Seattle family:
What happened to Sam’s mom?
' Even after the divorce of Reed’s fa-
ther, Randy, and Sam’s mother, J ois,
they remained 0n good terms, as Jois
regularly visited Sam and Jared, her
other son with Randy, until January
2000, when Jois left. As Reed reveals,
Randy and the rest of the Harkness
family stepped in with love and sup-
port for Sam and’ Jared, but no one re-
ally talked about Jois’ disappearance.
While Jared seemed to slump in
his mother’s absence, Reed remarked
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that Sam seemed almost “too resil-
ient,” so Sam and Reed made films
about Sam’s superhero alter ego, the
Blue Panther, until Reed suggested
their next film center on the Blue
Panther searching for his mom.
Reed Harkness demonstrates
the intuitive skills of a young Orson
Welles. Like “The Magnificent Amber—
sons,” the Harkness family’s placid
exterior belies a number of subtly
unresolved issues, and like “Citizen
Kane,” Jois Harkness leaves behind a
narrative puzzle whose solution feels
tantalizineg like it’s hiding in plain
sight. ,
It’s no spoiler to disclose that Sam
and Reed find Jois in Southern Cali-
fornia, because even after Reed delves
into J ois’ background, including her
own adoptive family in southern Or—
egon, she remains so enigmatic that it
frustrates any impulse we might feel
to cast aspersions on her.
Still Working 9 to 5
“Still Working 9 to 5” explores how
an occasionally cartoonish office
comedy, that’s since become near-
universally beloved, began with one
.of the more “woke” movements of its
era, the “9 to 5” National Association
of Working Women, and has remained
all too relevant with the “gig econo—
my?’ and #MeToo.
It’s fascinating to hear from the
film’s writers, advisers, leading ladies
and snarlingly sexist antagonist (real—-
life good guy Dabney Coleman) how
they carefully constructed a socially
conscious sitcom to change people’s
perspectives by delivering lowbrow
laughs.
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Festival: one of the best I’ve attended in Port Townsend
assembled to highlight the leading
trio’s respective characters, each rep—
resentative of a different slice of the
female employment experience ~
married, divorced, widowed, with and
without, kids — to the point that ear-
lier conceptions of the story included
Black and Latina co-leads.
The actresses’ signature underly-
ing personalities also helped under—
score their characters’ differences, as
we learn that Lily Tomlin’s taste in
jokes is a bit finicky.
What’s not amusing is to be re-
minded not only how dire women’s
workplace conditions and compensa-
tions were when “9 to 5” first'screened
in 1980, but also how many women
workers are forced to endure treat-
ment as bad, or worse, in the 21st
‘ century, in spite of significant prog-
. ress on some fronts.
The montage of modern intema~
tional “9 to 5” musical stage revivals
turns sour when Harvey Weinstein,
one of the musical’s investors and
producers, lurches onscreen from ar-
chival footage to not-so-humblebrag,
“I know that everybody in my com—
pany wants to kill me, and they’ve all
bought multiple tickets”,
Shambala
“Shambala,” based on Chingiz
Aitmatov’s 1970 novella “The White
Ship,” uses the rich wilderness Vistas
of its on-location filming in Kyrgyz-
stan to offer an ultimately pessimistic
prognosis of how well the country’s
culture can survive industrialization
with its soul intact.
Artur Amanaliev is heartbreak-
ingly adorable as Shambala, a lonely
7-year-old boy who lives in a remote
mountain forest with his mystical
grandfather and other scattered rela-
tives, because he’s just a little kid
who wants the same comfort, affec-
tion, and sense of safety that all little
kids want and are entitled to.
Unfortunately for Shambala’s in-
nocence, while he might occupy a rar-
efied patch of idyllic tranquility, ma—
lignant forces from within and outside
of his isolated world are converging to
disfigure its natural beauty.
Shambala’s uncle desecrates sacred
area artifacts, descends into stum-
bling, drunkenrrages, disciplines the
sensitive boy for his impudence, and
beats his wife for being barren, while
construction rigs tear up the previ-
ously untouched landscape, and men
with firearms make sport of its wild-
life, dismaying the wide-eyed little
boy who’s been raised on his grand-
father’s tales of the mythical Mother
Deer.
Against the clumsy, lumbering,
hammering power of these crude, ex- ,
ploitative, predatory adults, Shamba-
la’s young dreams and empathy, and
even his grandfather’s age-old legends
and wisdom, seem as fragile and pris—
tine as the tiny white paper boat that
Shambala sends floating down the
river, with the hopes that it will reach
the sea, where he’s been told his long-
gone father works as a sailor.
My thanks to the Port Townsend
Film Festival, its volunteers and
sponsors, and the surrounding com-
munity of businesses and residents
for treating me to such a welcom-
ing, well-run and worthwhile experi—
ence. This might not be my first Port
Townsend .Film Festival, but it’s one
of the best I’ve attended yet.
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