The Goddess of Gumbo

The news that John Sayles was bring­ing his newest film to the Vir­ginia Film Fes­ti­val has been all that any­body has talked about in this town for weeks–a fact reflected in the line of laugh­ing, ges­tur­ing, excited film­go­ers that wound about a block-and-a-half down Charlottesville’s Down­town Mall before the show. Sayles made a brief appear­ance before …