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.
The New Wave auteur's movie was fueled by one generation's rejection of another: "We must be different from our parents," a character declares.
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