On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Overview
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
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- A24, Fremantle, BBC Film, Element Pictures
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Cast
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- Director
- Rungano Nyoni
- Writers
- Rungano Nyoni
- Producers
- Tim Cole,Ed Guiney,Andrew Lowe,Eva Yates
- Cinematography
- David Gallego
- Composer
- Lucrecia Dalt
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CinemaSerf
December 7, 2024
"Shula" (Susan Chardy) is returning from a fancy dress party late one evening when she encounters a corpse on the road. A quick investigation reveals the body as that of her "Uncle Fred". She doesn't appear terribly upset at the news and neither does her partying father when she calls to tell him! Her evening doesn't get any better with the arrival of her drunken cousin "Nsansa" (Elizabeth Chisela) and when the police tell her they don't have enough vehicles to come and deal with it til the morn…
Brent Marchant
April 17, 2025
A pertinent fact about the little-known African bird known as the guinea fowl is that they have a unique, loud call that can be heard at quite a range, not only amongst their own kind, but also among all of the other animals within earshot. That can prove quite valuable both for the members of their own flock and for all other nearby vulnerable creatures when predators approach. While that may sound like useless trivia to some, it’s a highly relevant metaphorical observation about the underlying…