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21.01.2024 / 01:59
‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’ Review: An Artist Comes to Grips With His Lout of a Father in a Forceful Drama Free of Feel-Good Fakery
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic 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.