Being Heumann gives disability rights revolution a glossy, hokey sheen
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Skyscrapers glinting in oily black puddles, shots of a gray sky gathering in the crevices of New York city tarmac, all accompanied by the purr of an electric wheelchair; this is the unexpected introduction to Sian Heder’s Being Heumann, a follow-up to her Best Picture winner CODA. Heder uses these disorienting early shots to put audiences in the chair of her protagonist, the fiery, independent, real-life activist Judy Heumann. Judy races across sidewalks, determinedly avoiding the crossfir
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