SummaryAfter nearly a decade exploring different facets of the African diaspora — and his own place within it — Ephraim Asili makes his feature-length debut with The Inheritance, an astonishing ensemble work set almost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young, Black artists and activists form a collective. A scripted drama of... Read More
Directed By:Ephraim Asili
Written By:Ephraim Asili
The Inheritance
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Universal Acclaim
86
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
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Mar 11, 2021
100
It is didactic without losing its sense of organicism; it is radical without losing its sense of humor; it is intentional in its visual and formal design without flattening itself to the status of aesthetic image emptied of its politics. It is, in all ways, a reminder that any radical future must trust in the transformative potential of the communion between past and present.
Mar 11, 2021
90
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.
Mar 11, 2021
90
The Inheritance, Ephraim Asili’s debut feature film, beautifully abandons genre to consider questions about community, art and Black liberation.
Mar 12, 2021
88
Asili experiments with cinematic form as he considers “inheritance” as legacy, heritage, and tradition, resulting in an engrossing, challenging film that allures and confronts you in equal measure.
Mar 16, 2021
75
Blackness isn’t a fixed identity or static community—it’s ever shifting, retracting, then proliferating, coming in and out of communion with itself. The Black radical tradition, specifically, says that by bridging past and present, such chaos can organize and revolutionize itself. The Inheritance stages an encouraging attempt at re-invention.
Mar 10, 2021
75
The Inheritance is a welcome reminder of film’s flexibility as a medium of protest, a vessel of cultural history, and an agent of change.
Mar 9, 2021
75
The film’s throwback nature is in sync with Ephraim Asili’s interest in wanting to keep the legacy of black activism alive.
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Dec 17, 2021
10
If you have an open mind, this will reward you greatly. If you hate any examination of race and power in The USA, you will be triggered, offended, and give this a low score. I think that kind of proves the movies point. The hateful people in America is exactly what this is about. If you don't want to see a movie about racism in the USA, then maybe you really don't want things to change...
Oct 8, 2021
0
Another documentary pushing identity politics, which should have been buried long time ago for the benefit of everyone. But tribalism and identitarianism tend to boil to the surface. African Americans aren't immune to it either, as this movie documents very well.
Release Date:Mar 12, 2021
Duration:1 h 40 m
Awards
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Cinéma du Réel
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Indie Memphis Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
