“Butter”– A Soft Pat for the Audience
With the Iowa primary just ending, I was reminded of the movie “Butter” which I saw at the Napa Valley Film Festival in mid-November. “Butter” zooms in on the butter-carving contest made famous at the annual Iowa State fair. Butter sculpting is a very popular and competitive art in places like Iowa (with butter statues of Elvis Presley, Tiger Woods, The Last Supper, Superman, and Harry Potter),
and the movie contains some really amazing butter statues including Newt Gingrich. “Butter” will be released on March 16.
“Butter” opens as a quirky...