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Red Island

L'île rouge

2023

Robin Campillo

Charlie Vauselle, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Quim Gutiérrez, Sophie Guillemin ...

5.1

133

Drama Thomas, a young boy, lives under French colonialism in Madagascar during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

	Author	Review
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"Extremely rich in suggestive detail and beautifully wrapped up by Lapoirie's cinematography and Rebotini's music, it perfectly recreates the padded, enveloping atmosphere of the lost paradise of the French colonialists"	POS
United States	Alistair Ryder The Film Stage	"I got the sense there’s a marvelous coming-of-age film hidden somewhere within the DNA of his story––this iteration, alas, isn’t it"	NEG
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Guardian	"It captures beautifully and atmospherically a sense of mounting tension as the military men grapple with their impotency in a newly independent country (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"A magical portrait of postcolonial Madagascar (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This visually exquisite, tender film about a boy growing up in a military air base on an former colony is a wonderful watch (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"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"	POS

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