Billy Luther could have easily used his 15 years of documentary film making to make an informative piece about frybread, but instead he decided to make a feature film with a girl nicknamed Frybread Face.
“Frybread Face and Me” is a coming-of-age story set in 1990. An adolescent Navajo boy growing up in San Diego spends a summer with his grandmother on the Navajo Nation.
The coming-of-age drama follows a San Diego child sent to visit his Navajo grandmother on the Arizona reservation for the summer, forging a meaningful connection with his cousin during the stay.
We really can’t speak highly enough of Native American writer-director Billy Luther’s subtly compelling, richly amusing and hugely entertaining coming-of-age comedy-drama, which has already found a large and appreciative audience on Netflix.
I was born the same year Frybread Face and Me takes place, but that’s not the only reason I connected with its uplifting story about a young boy making the most of his summer vacation.
Billy Luther’s Frybread Face and Me is a more subtle coming-of-age story set on a Reservation, but brings the charm. Read on for our full review.