The first glimpse we get of Tarrell (André Holland), a successful painter, in Exhibiting Forgiveness is in a moment of domestic bliss. He lives in a beautiful house with his singer-songwriter wife, Aisha (Andra Day), and their young son (Daniel Michael Barriere). Each day seems to begin with a cheerful family breakfast before Tarrell goes off to the spacious studio where he paints images from his childhood across towering canvases. In the evening, he and Aisha sit together while she works on her new song and he looks on in adoration.
Exhibiting Forgiveness is the first feature by internationally recognized contemporary painter Titus Kaphar, and across its early scenes, the writer-director homes in on how more than just Tarrell and Aisha’s personal relationship is based on collaboration. When they’re at home together or when they’re visiting Tarrell’s mother, Joyce (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), the film often takes on...
Exhibiting Forgiveness is the first feature by internationally recognized contemporary painter Titus Kaphar, and across its early scenes, the writer-director homes in on how more than just Tarrell and Aisha’s personal relationship is based on collaboration. When they’re at home together or when they’re visiting Tarrell’s mother, Joyce (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), the film often takes on...
- 1/25/2024
- by Ross McIndoe
- Slant Magazine
There’s a moment in Titus Kaphar’s “Exhibiting Forgiveness” that speaks volumes about how trauma — racial, historical, personal — can destroy a person, even as the scene barely offers an explicit word about it. Tarrell (André Holland), an artist who paints dreamy neon-rainbow-hued suburban fantasias, has reconnected with La’Ron (John Earl Jelks), the estranged father he hasn’t seen in 15 years. La’Ron, now gray and grizzled and homeless, is a recovering addict who was rarely around and, when he was, treated his son with a ruthless indifference that edged into violence. Tarrell still wants nothing to do with him, but he’s decided to interview La’Ron on camera to figure out what it was that made his father such an abusive lout.
He asks La’Ron about the first time he ever smoked crack. La’Ron tells the story, and on the surface there isn’t much...
He asks La’Ron about the first time he ever smoked crack. La’Ron tells the story, and on the surface there isn’t much...
- 1/21/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
“Your heavenly Father will forgive you if you forgive those who sin against you; but if you refuse to forgive them, he will not forgive you.” This gospel of Matthew is the thematic crux of Titus Kaphar’s feature debut Exhibiting Forgiveness, a nakedly emotional, overwrought, schematic tale of how the artistic process converges with the unexpected return of past trauma. Led by André Holland in an impressively anguished performance, the ensemble elevates a script that has its heart in the right place but feels lacking in layers of complexity that we see from the art on display.
Tarrell (Holland) is an accomplished painter working from a studio in his comfortably-adorned home, balancing his work within a family of artists. His wife Aisha (Andra Day) is a musician, requiring coordination of scheduling their creative pursuits, as they are also raising their young son Tre (Daniel Michael Barriere). Coming off a...
Tarrell (Holland) is an accomplished painter working from a studio in his comfortably-adorned home, balancing his work within a family of artists. His wife Aisha (Andra Day) is a musician, requiring coordination of scheduling their creative pursuits, as they are also raising their young son Tre (Daniel Michael Barriere). Coming off a...
- 1/21/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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