Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s second feature starts with a dead body in the road. It ends with rage, righteousness, and a ...
Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a surreal and emotional journey through one family’s pent-up trauma.
"On Becoming a Guinea Fowl," Rungano Nyoni's new film, explores grief, secrets and trauma among a Zambian family. Susan Chardy is great in her debut.
The A24 flick strands audiences between realistic and speculative storytelling as a family copes with a complicated death.
The second feature of writer-director Rungano Nyoni ("I Am Not a Witch") shows her developing strongly with a story graced by ...
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 ...
“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” an A24 release in theaters Friday, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for “thematic material, sexual abuse, suggestive references and some drug use.” Running ...
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” makes a valid argument for speaking ill of the dead, especially if it bucks this respectful ...
This is the opening scene of On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Rungano Nyoni’s darkly comedic ... It premiered last year at the Cannes Film Festival and has already had a run in the U.K. And it’s a ...