Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Grasshopper Film will release it in virtual cinemas on Friday, March 12. Artist Ephraim Asili ...

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Unlike the sleek, jet-setting aesthetic of a Bond film, Inheritance prefers its settings claustrophobic, dingy, and chaotic. We hop between Cairo, Delhi, and Seoul—an itinerary that already has my ...

In filmmaker Ephraim Asili’s “The Inheritance,” the path to revolution begins with the smallest of acts. The opening of a chest or the flipping through pages of a book, for instance. For Julian, the ...

It may help to understand how “Inheritance” was shot before seeing filmmaker Neil Burger’s latest effort. The spy thriller’s vaguely impressionistic feel is due to the desire of Burger — whose movies ...

What inheritances of the past sustain the present and carry us forward? This question is staged in Ephraim Asili’s The Inheritance, an immersive, “speculative reenactment” of the filmmaker and DJ’s ...

When reviewing a film, reading the director’s statement can feel an awful lot like checking their will. What an artist intended with the choices they left behind won’t always matter to the audience, ...

A celebration of Black artists and revolutionaries, Ephraim Asili's debut feature was inspired by Godard's 'La Chinoise.' By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic Ephraim Asili calls his first ...

It is tempting to compare 'The Inheritance' with Tony Kushner's masterwork 'Angels in America,' which is also a two-part, six-act, roughly seven-hour drama centered on AIDS, historical connections, ...

Part documentary, part narrative, Ephraim Asili's feature debut is a Godardian meta movie about what drives diasporic storytelling. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2020 ...