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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.
Hereâs whatâs playing â MARCH 12-18 â at in-person and virtual cinemas in the Berkshires and environs. Where films have been reviewed, the capsules include the name of the film critic and the day the full review was posted on berkshireeagle.com. All reviews are by Associated Press critics.
ANOTHER ROUND (NR)
From Danish director Thomas Vinterberg comes this drama/comedy about a group of middle-aged men who give their comfortable, predictable lives a fresh jolt by committing together to a kind of social experiment: Theyâll stay mildly drunk all day every day, even during work hours. In Danish with English subtitles. 1 hour, 57 minutes.
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What might a collectively authored Black future look like? For creative polymath Ephraim Asili, it is one that knows its past as well as its present.
With his feature-length debut film “The Inheritance,” the West Philadelphia-raised, New York-based filmmaker presents a reflectively avant-garde portrait of the connective threads between community making, historical archives and political awakening. Shaping an easy bricolage of what Asili refers to as a “speculative reenactment” of his time spent living in a Black radical collective, the Black Arts Movement, and the MOVE Black liberation group, “The Inheritance”
resists convention in its easeful movements between documentary, fictive narrative and cultural archaeology.