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Neo-noir ‘Is God Is’ a stylish and daring revenge road trip | Review
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Neo-noir ‘Is God Is’ a stylish and daring revenge road trip | Review

The Seattle Times·Katie Walsh Tribune News Service·17 days ago
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Movie review Playwright Aleshea Harris makes a bold cinematic debut with the screen adaptation of her Obie Award-winning play “Is God Is,” a harrowing and beautiful slice of surrealist neo-noir. Her fable depicts twin sisters on a revenge road trip, setting out to right the wrongs of their early childhood at the behest of their estranged mother, finding some catharsis along the way. Tony Award-winning actor Kara Young co-stars as Racine, the mouthy, rough, tough twin; Mallori Johnson plays her sister Anaia, shy, retreating and “emotional,” a descriptor that lands like an insult on her psyche. Harris introduces us to the girls in a sepia flashback, their small bodies clad in matching dresses, one head resting on the other’s shoulder. They only have each other. RECENT MOVIE REVIEWS When we catch up with them in the present day, the twins live a life perfectly in sync, their movements in rhythm, their telepathic communication expressed on screen in typewriter font subtitles.…

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