Test Pattern

Name: Test Pattern
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: February 19, 2021
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Amanda Joy Erickson, Amani Starnes, Ben Levin, Brittany S. Hall, Caroline Bloom

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: February 19, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Amanda Joy Erickson, Amani Starnes, Ben Levin, Brittany S. Hall, Caroline Bloom, Drew Fuller, Gail Bean, Katy Erin, Melissa Jo Bailey, Will Brill

Summary: 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. Their story reveals the systemic injustices and social conditioning women face when navigating sex and consent within the AmericanTest 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. Their story reveals the systemic injustices and social conditioning women face when navigating sex and consent within the American patriarchy. … Expand

Director: Shatara Michelle Ford

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 82 min

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Selome Hailu

Feb 18, 2021

Ford’s commitment to implying trauma instead of visualizing it is more than just an impressive formal constraint. Test Pattern proves the fault of more uncreative depictions of racial and gendered violence that exploit bare bodies and blood for shock value rather than depth and specificity. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Feb 19, 2021

Coupled with the talents of cinematographer Ludovica Isidori and music by Rob Rusli, Ford’s Test Pattern is an engrossing human drama, one that examines the intersections and inequalities between race, gender, and healthcare in a poignant and powerful way. Read full review

The Film Stage Glenn Heath Jr.

Feb 18, 2021

Taking the title into consideration, Test Pattern remains clearly focused on the circumstances outside of our control that force adjustments in perspective. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Feb 17, 2021

A trenchant conversation piece from a promising new director, Test Pattern provides ample room for one’s biases and privilege to shape our interpretation of what’s on screen. Read full review

Sarah-Tai Black

Feb 18, 2021

A deceptively simple and concise narrative structure allows Ford to parse her subject and characters with a graceful internal complexity that shows rather than tells. Read full review

Devika Girish

Feb 18, 2021

Test Pattern achieves a lot with very little: The film’s nonlinear editing and cannily scored silences invite our interpretations, locating in them the entanglements of race and gender. Ford pushes us, if not to definitive answers, then to the right questions. Read full review

Nina Metz

Feb 17, 2021

There are colors that pop throughout film — as if, in a nod to the title, drawn from a TV test pattern — and visually this is what stayed with me, from the yellow of Renesha’s dress, to the aqua benches against the white antiseptic floors of the hospital waiting room Read full review

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