The Sound and Fury of 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl'
After showing how a culture of silence around abuse can devastate entire generations, the arresting A24 film holds a mirror ...
Will American Audiences Turn Out for ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’? Rungano Nyoni and Susan Chardy Make the Case for Their Zambian Gem
The mile-a-minute banter and easy repartee between Rungano Nyoni and Susan Chardy, the Zambian British director and lead ...
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'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl' explores the culture of silence around sexual assault
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.
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Don urges caution in implementing house arrest sentencing to prevent injustice, misperception
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Her films put a uniquely surreal Africa on the map. Rungano Nyoni won’t be limited by expectations
The Zambian-born director has, with only two features, stunned film festivals and emerged as a major African voice, one ...
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Secrets and silence haunt a grieving family in this spellbinding melodrama
In On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, filmmaker Rungano Nyoni weaves a surreal drama about defiance in the face of ritual, and the ...
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Secrets and silence haunt a grieving family in this spellbinding melodrama
Family traveling from near and far converge upon one person's house for several days of mourning, including Shula's grief-stricken mother (Doris Naulapwa). Most of these characters don't stand out ...
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In the subtly powerful 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,' stubborn wrongs linger during a funeral
You don’t need to be a middle-class Zambian or conversant in ... Driving home from a costume soirée, Shula (Chardy) encounters a dead body in the road. We never see the man fully, but when she pulls ...
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The Resounding Silences of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”
It’s an astonishing spectacle to behold. Relatives descend en masse on Shula’s family home, which is now temporarily a “funeral house”; furniture is cleared away, and mattresses are ...