Movie Review: 'Is God Is'
Aleshea Harris adapts her Obie-winning play into a surreal revenge thriller that follows twin sisters on a violent cross-country quest.
- Playwright Aleshea Harris made her directorial debut with "Is God Is," a genre-blending revenge thriller based on her Obie Award-winning stage play, released in theaters today.
- Twin sisters Racine and Anaia, played by Kara Young and Mallori Johnson, receive a deathbed request from their mother, Vivica Fox, to kill their father, Sterling Brown, who scarred them as children.
- Harris explores Black female rage in the film, saying "Black women deserve to live through the edges of ourselves and the full measure of our humanity should be honored," and that includes anger.
- During their road trip to the Dirty South, Racine, "The Rough One," and Anaia, "The Quiet One," encounter bizarre characters including their father's former lawyer Chuck Hall and his new wife Janelle Monáe.
- Fusing Greek tragedy with Black Southern gothic elements, critics describe Harris's directorial debut as an "engrossing experience" that establishes her as a bold new cinematic voice.
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‘IS GOD IS’ Reimagines The Revenge Genre Through Black Women’s Eyes
Source: Amazon MGM Studios / Amazon MGM Studios “You ever want to scrape your scars off and see what’s underneath?” It’s a natural question for anyone who has carried trauma in their body and wants to know: What is left underneath all the harm that has been done to me? Who would I be without these scars? In Is God Is, the first feature film from writer-director Aleshea Harris, this question hangs in the air between twin sisters, Racine and Anaia…
Is God Is Refuses To Look Away From Increasing Cases Of Black Femicide
Source: Araya Doheny / Getty In writer-director Aleshea Harris’s film, Is God Is, twin sisters have been sent by their dying mother to kill the father who tried to burn their mother alive. “This is destiny shit,” says Racine of the crusade their dying mother has handed them. The mission to find their father, whom they call the Monster, becomes the spine of the film. It is a revenge story unlike anything Black cinema has offered before, one that …
Movie Review: 'Is God Is'
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