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Red Island

Directed by Robin Campillo
Film Movement
2023
117 Minutes
France, Belgium, Madagascar
French, Malagasy
Drama, Coming of Age
Not Rated

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."
    Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
  • "Frequently poignant and always visually spectacular, Campilo’s Red Island is a masterful portrayal of colonialism through a child’s eyes."
    Andrew Murray, The Upcoming
  • "Red Island is an affecting, intensely personal film from Robin Campillo, inspired by his own childhood days on Madagascar."
    Jonathan Romney, Financial Times
  • "It captures beautifully and atmospherically a sense of mounting tension as the military men grapple with their impotency in a newly independent country."
    Wendy Ide, The Observer
  • "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."
    Guy Lodge, Variety
  • "A film that is very bold in its intention of masked intelligence and very successful in its approach to the perception of the imperceptible."
    Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa
  • "A film dripping with the kind of irony and atmosphere that Marguerite Duras could appreciate, only much more playful...."
    Deborah Young, The Film Verdict

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