Origin (2023, US, drama, 141 min., rated PG).
Ava DuVernay’s moving and timely biopic concerns the life of Isabel Wilkerson, a woman coping with a devastating personal tragedy while writing her incredible seminal book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (published in 2020). Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in a sublime performance), travels through Germany, India and the US to research the caste system in those countries, asking vital questions and getting startling results.
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