A celebration of Black artists and revolutionaries, Ephraim Asili's debut feature was inspired by Godard's 'La Chinoise.'
Ephraim Asili calls his first feature-length film a remix of
La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 mélange of Maoist politics among idealistic young Parisians. With energy and wit, he achieves his goal of creating "a critique and an homage at the same time," but you don't need to be familiar with the earlier work to appreciate
The Inheritance. It stands solidly on its own as a dynamic inquiry into revolutionary culture and Black identity, not to mention the challenge of living with roommates.