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Test Pattern

2019

Shatara Michelle Ford

Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean, Drew Fuller ...

6.0

40

Drama. Thriller Test Pattern follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jourdain Searles The Hollywood Reporter	"A dazzling, devastating feature debut (...) This is not a movie about sexual assault as an abstract concept; it’s a movie about the reality of a sexual assault survivor’s experience. It's a cinematic achievement"
		Devika Girish The New York Times	"'Test Pattern' achieves a lot with very little: The film’s nonlinear editing and cannily scored silences invite our interpretations (...) Ford pushes us, if not to definitive answers, then to the right questions."
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"A shrewd, socially penetrating relationship drama (...) A tantalizing, maybe even daunting, promise of what Ford might do next"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"A perceptive and often quite painful examination of sexual assault, relationship dynamics, racial divides, and the corrosive power of violence"
		William Repass Slant	"The film sacrifices none of its urgency while shaking up narrative conventions in the service of a searing, yet nuanced, interrogation of the racism and sexism baked into our society at every level (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Glenn Heath Jr. The Film Stage	"A unique and sobering deconstruction of the relationship drama (...) Test Pattern remains clearly focused on the circumstances outside of our control that force adjustments in perspective"

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