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Red Island (12a)
Robin Campillo, director of the acclaimed 120 BPM and Eastern Boys, mines the memories of his upbringing in post-colonial Madagascar to create a spellbinding, autobiographically inspired drama that mixes forms and textures to stunning and imaginative effect.
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.
‘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
‘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, Observer
‘Red Island is an affecting, intensely personal film from Robin Campillo, inspired by his own childhood days on Madagascar.’ Jonathan Romney, Financial Times
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.
‘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
‘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, Observer
‘Red Island is an affecting, intensely personal film from Robin Campillo, inspired by his own childhood days on Madagascar.’ Jonathan Romney, Financial Times
7.30pm Full Price £7.75 Students £5 Under 26 £5
TALIESIN ARTS CENTRE
Swansea University
Singleton Campus
Swansea SA2 8PZ
Wed 17 July
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