Red Island

Directed by Robin Campillo

Film Movement

2023

117 Minutes

France, Belgium, Madagascar

French, Malagasy

Drama, Coming of Age

Coming of Age, Race and Racism, African Studies, Black Studies, European Studies, French Language, History

Not Rated

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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.

Cast

Nadia Tereszkiewicz
Quim Gutiérrez
Charlie Vauselle
Amely Rakotoarimalala
Sophie Guillemin
Hugues Delamarlière

Highest Rating
"***** It’s a compelling, visually exquisite piece of work."

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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"Frequently poignant and always visually spectacular, Campilo’s Red Island is a masterful portrayal of colonialism through a child’s eyes."

Andrew Murray, The Upcoming
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"Red Island is an affecting, intensely personal film from Robin Campillo, inspired by his own childhood days on Madagascar."

Jonathan Romney, Financial Times
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"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, The Observer
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"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
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"A film that is very bold in its intention of masked intelligence and very successful in its approach to the perception of the imperceptible."

Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa
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"A film dripping with the kind of irony and atmosphere that Marguerite Duras could appreciate, only much more playful...."

Deborah Young, The Film Verdict