[ad_1] Jon Bernthal and Aunjanue Ellis in Origin. Photo: ARRAY Filmworks Ava DuVernay’s Origin is both essay film and melodrama, though neither description quite does it justice. The director has taken Isabel Wilkerson’s influential nonfiction best-seller Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents — a sweeping analysis of discrimination that finds the connections among American racism,… Continue reading Ava DuVernay’s Origin Devastates Its Audience at Venice