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 .The couple are Renesha (Brittany S.
Hall) and Evan (Will Brill) whose first meeting, first date and first night together unfold before the title card appears, but give such a clear picture of them as individuals that it would be hard not to invest in them as a pair.
Hall and Brill effortlessly summon a charming, opposites-attract chemistry
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