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Aleshea Harris adapts her Obie award-winning play into this explosive, neo-Western revenge thriller infused with myth, starring Sterling K. Brown and Vivica A. Fox. Twin sisters Racine (Kara Young) and Anaia (Mallori Johnson) are both disfigured from a traumatic fire at a young age that left them in the foster system through childhood and adulthood. Racine is the rambunctious, blunt keeper of timid Anaia, ready to go ham on anyone who talks smack about her sister's disfigured face or her own disfigured arm. They're contacted by their estranged mother (Vivica A. Fox), whom they call GOD, for the first time in over 20 years. They find her ailing on her deathbed, and she reveals the truth: their cold, abusive father (Sterling K. Brown) set her on fire in the bathtub and did the same to them. Her final wish: to make their daddy dead. In her directorial debut, Harris brings energy to the landscape, framing the South like a Western frontier in a gorgeous, sweeping blend of urbanism and style, detailing the sisters' love. Though on the road to deliver death, Is God Is pulses with life and through its mythical influences taps into something dark and deeply human. Part of the Dartmouth Film Society series "Myths Revisited" Get more info and tickets here.
