Saturday, November 1, 2025

Exhibiting Forgiveness

 


Like the artist at the center of his Exhibiting Forgiveness, director Titus Kaphar pours memory and pain onto a large canvas, invites the world in and leaves it to the viewer to create sense and connection with the work.

The film -- which stars André Holland, Andra Day, John Earl Jelks and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor -- brims with emotion as a family struggles against a history of abuse and addiction to find healing and peace. The answers are not easy and terrain is rocky and is guaranteed to leave many viewers bruised and exhausted. But also, well, blessed.

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August Wilson's Century Cycle -- Gem of the Ocean

  August Wilson seems to have had a lot on his mind when he wrote Gem of the Ocean -- history, religion, folkways, maybe even politics, but ...