On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Name: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: March 7, 2025
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 87

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A24 | Release Date: March 7, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: 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.

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Odie Henderson

Mar 13, 2025

This is one of the year’s best films, a heartbreaking stunner that’s not easily shaken. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Monica Castillo

Mar 7, 2025

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is an uncomfortable but entrancing watch, a tribute to shattering silence around family secrets and bucking tradition for the sake of empathy. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Mar 19, 2025

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is not the first film about family secrets coming to light through grief, but it may be the most original. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Mar 14, 2025

This is a poetic-realist vision with grace notes of wit and surrealism. It is a calm, visually assured statement of shared rage. Read full review

Steve Pond

May 18, 2024

The film can be confusing, but it’s not meant to be pinned down. And despite the occasionally surreal touches, it’s an examination of how the beauty of tradition can also be an opponent to justice and humanity. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Dec 16, 2024

Nyoni’s Zambia-set film, using the Bemba language and English, deftly juggles humour with pathos, domestic drama with surreal fantasy flourishes. It’s dizzyingly creative and rather special. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 18, 2024

While it’s such an intriguing idea, an almost absurdist scrutiny of what avoidance looks like and how families choreograph their collective denial, there is something a little bit contrived in it and, though always engaged, I found myself longing for some outright passion or rage or confrontation. Read full review

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