“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is not the first film about family secrets coming to light through grief, but it may be the most original. Rungano Nyoni’s amazing film — she wrote and directed — is ...
The final, searing shot of Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a convergence of everything that’s come before. The film, about a sudden death and family secrets in Zambia, comes to a ...
Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...
The movie "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" is set in Zambia and deals in grief and dark family secrets. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to director Rungano Nyoni and actor Susan Chardy about the movie. Rungano ...
Rungano Nyoni won Best Director at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for her "I Am Not a Witch" follow-up. With her 2017 directorial debut “I Am Not a Witch,” Rungano Nyoni established herself as a ...
Filmmaker Rungano Nyoni's spellbinding melodrama On Becoming a Guinea Fowl begins with a woman named Shula (Susan Chardy) happening upon the dead body of her Uncle Fred on the side of an empty dirt ...
What’s the right way to grieve when the act won’t forgive a crime? In Rungano Nyoni’s entrancing, moody family drama “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” a young woman (Susan Chardy) returns home to navigate ...
Wherever it takes place, whoever’s life has ended, a funeral is a kind of collective memory bank. No two memories of the deceased, spoken or unspoken, work the same way. But a person’s life, and its ...
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