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.