The film 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' by director Rungano Nyoni is receiving positive reviews at the Cannes Film Festival for its portrayal of trauma, family secrets, and cultural identity in Zambia. The movie blends fantasy, drama, and black comedy to depict a young woman's struggle with her past and family history.
'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' Review: African Story Slips Between Fable and Hard Reality #Cannes2024 https://t.co/z2Sdw12eTY
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Review: Trauma & Tradition Clash in Zambia https://t.co/BatO866QOL
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is a Zambian funeral drama from “I Am Not A Witch” director Rungano Nyoni that takes familiar tropes of the westernized traveler who comes home and reckons with her identity & family’s past, expressing it through a culturally specific lens that is unique… https://t.co/MZQISm1lZ2
‘On Becoming A Guinea Fowl’ Review: Family Secrets Unravel In Rungano Nyoni’s Zambian Funeral Drama – Cannes Film Festival https://t.co/pKOPd5kL3Q
‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Review: Trauma Clashes with Tradition in a Searing Zambian Drama https://t.co/gdGLuE4w1s
'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' Review: Trauma Takes on Grieving in Rungano Nyoni's Darkly Transfixing Second Feature https://t.co/TQ5N8dp8W7
#Cannes: A young woman is forced to host the funeral of the uncle who molested her in Rungano Nyoni’s lucid and incandescently pissed off follow-up to "I Am Not a Witch." Read our review for "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" here: https://t.co/D8RUcm2p7N https://t.co/l71QH5y4Lh
'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' Review: A Smart and Unsettling Zambian Drama Depicts a Family's Reckoning https://t.co/j7w1yos3EZ
'On Becoming A Guinea Fowl' Cannes Review: Rungano Nyoni's second feature is "a formally daring picture that blends fantasy, stylised drama and elements of black comedy" says @wendyide #Cannes2024 https://t.co/CCtHKpl6ou
#NowWatching ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL at #Cannes2024 https://t.co/GXVAEWXxqm