Test Pattern Review: A Shrewd, Socially Penetrating Relationship Drama Test Pattern Review: A Shrewd, Socially Penetrating Relationship Drama
A loving interracial relationship begins to fracture in the wake of a rape, in Shatara Michelle Ford s quietly momentous first feature.
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Running time: Running time: 82 MIN.
Eighty-two minutes is not a long time. And yet Shatara Michelle Ford’s intelligent and engrossing feature debut packs an enormous amount in, while still finding room to let characters, moments and difficult, provocative issues breathe. An ostensibly small-scale drama that traces a couple of days in the aftermath of a sexual assault, it’s a remarkable display of compression and control, using one interracial relationship as a microcosm in which to observe the invisible influence of enormous, malign societal forces. “Test Pattern” tiny, sedate yet urgent is like the tinkling of .
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Alice in Californiland
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Different Stars
Musical show with a current theme: How do these emotions collide during time spent alone in quarantine? When James opens a box of artifacts from his first breakup, after months of self-isolation during COVID-19, he reckons with memories that haunt him of a first queer love gone awry; starring James Jackson, Jr., Victoria Huston-Elem, Danielle Buonaiuto, and Karl Saint Lucy. https://www.differentstars.live/
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Time to usher out 2020
Dec. 25, 2020
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VIRUOSI CONCERT: Aymeric Dupre la Tour, seen here in 2015 at First Church Congregational in Fairfield, will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 “Jenamy” as the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra presents “Virtuosi Christmas Concert A Traditional Holiday Celebration of Joy and Beauty’’ on Sunday, Dec.r 27, at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain and Facebook Live at 5 p.m. For the livestream, go to the Virtuosi Christmas Concert-Facebook Live page.Meg Barone / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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AT ELY CENTER: Melanie Carr’s “Shrouded Truth” is part of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art’s exhibition Solos 2020, in which six artists’ works from the 2020 Open Call are spotlighted. The 51 Trumbull St., New Haven, gallery’s winter hours are Sundays and Mondays 1-4 p.m. and Thursdays 1-5 p.m.Ely Center / Contributed photo /Show MoreShow Less
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A Winnipeg school has found a way to still bring to life a Christmas classic.
Linden Christian School released a short video this week of students performing the Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker Suite.
Ballerina and student, Annabel B., dances in the video while classmates provide the music. The Grade 12 Women s Ensemble sang the notes to the famous piece, rather than playing instruments.
The acapella notes of the Tchaikovsky piece were arranged by Jeff Funk.