Film
Testament
- 7PM
An ordinary American family survives a nuclear war but then must figure out how to press on in the face of unimaginable horror in Lynne Littman’s quietly shattering study of tragedy and resilience. The Oscar-nominated performance by Jane Alexander as the brave but struggling mother sets the tone—at once rigorously unsentimental yet unbearably moving—for this intimate study of everyday people confronting the void.
35mm print courtesy of the Lynne Littman Collection at the Academy Film Archive.
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