The Unabridged Mrs. Vera’s Daybook, dir. Robert James, 2022, USA, 81m. 💖
Saturday, June 25, 2022, 1:15pm Castro
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This is not Mrs. Vera’s first appearance at Frameline. First, there was a short documentary, Verasphere: A Love Story in Costumes (Frameline43). Then KQED wanted the director to make it into a feature-length documentary, but then Covid changed all of our plans, so KQED put up an abridged version of the unfinished work. Now we finally get to see the whole thing.
Mrs. Vera is a flamboyant character (pictured) created by David Faulk in the 1990s out of the darkness of the worst of the AIDS pandemic, when people with AIDS felt they were living on borrowed time. Although colorful, thoroughly over-the-top costumes are an integral part of Mrs. Vera, they aren’t the whole story, and now Mrs. Vera is confronting the challenge of a new pandemic, particularly one that made it impossible for a time to do much of the hands-on collaboration that turned Mrs. Vera into a community project, with dozens of people joining in to march in the Pride parade.
The Unabridged Mrs. Vera’s Daybook is a story of resilience and defiance, now in the face of two pandemics, injecting color and humor while recognizing the darkness and gloom around us. It’s a must see.
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