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08.16.2024 or Watch at Home
11.15.2024
Red Island
Directed by
Robin Campillo
At the beginning of the 70s, in Madagascar, a few armed forces and their families live in one of the last French military bases abroad, a relic of the ending French colonial empire. Influenced by his reading of the intrepid comic book heroine Fantômette, Thomas, a ten-year-old boy, sweeps with a curious glance what surrounds him. Beneath the carefree expatriate life, his eyes are gradually opening to another reality.
Director & Cast
- Director: Robin Campillo
- Starring: Nadia Tereszkiewicz
- Starring: Quim Gutiérrez
- Starring: Charlie Vauselle
- Starring: Amely Rakotoarimalala
- Starring: Sophie Guillemin
- Starring: Hugues Delamarlière
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Reviews
- "***** It’s a compelling, visually exquisite piece of work."
- "Frequently poignant and always visually spectacular, Campilo’s Red Island is a masterful portrayal of colonialism through a child’s eyes."
- "Red Island is an affecting, intensely personal film from Robin Campillo, inspired by his own childhood days on Madagascar."
- "It captures beautifully and atmospherically a sense of mounting tension as the military men grapple with their impotency in a newly independent country."
- "Confirms its helmer as a major name in contemporary French cinema — one who can fill a sprawling period canvas with considerable visual imagination and sensory detail."
- "A film that is very bold in its intention of masked intelligence and very successful in its approach to the perception of the imperceptible."
- "A film dripping with the kind of irony and atmosphere that Marguerite Duras could appreciate, only much more playful...."
Nominated
Golden Seashell
San Sebastián Int'l. Film Festival
Golden Seashell
San Sebastián Int'l. Film Festival
Nominated
Carmel Award
Haifa Int'l. Film Festival
Carmel Award
Haifa Int'l. Film Festival
Nominated
Dragon Award
Göteborg Film Festival
Dragon Award
Göteborg Film Festival
Official Selection
BFI London Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Official Selection
Rendezvous with French Cinema, Lincoln Center
Rendezvous with French Cinema, Lincoln Center
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Film at Lincoln Center | New York | NY | August 16, 2024 |