Red Island

Name: Red Island
Genre: Drama
Released: August 16, 2024
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Amely Rakotoarimalala, Cathy Pham, Charlie Vauselle, David Serero, Hugues Delamarlière

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Film Movement | Release Date: August 16, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Amely Rakotoarimalala, Cathy Pham, Charlie Vauselle, David Serero, Hugues Delamarlière, Luna Carpiaux, Mitia Ralaivita, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Quim Gutiérrez, Sophie Guillemin

Summary: Living on one of the last remaining military bases amidst a hedonistic group of French armed forces in 1970s Madagascar, ten-year-old Thomas begins to find cracks in the surface of his family’s blissful existence on the idyllic island. Taking inspiration from his comic book hero Fantomette, Thomas spies on those around him, discovering theLiving on one of the last remaining military bases amidst a hedonistic group of French armed forces in 1970s Madagascar, ten-year-old Thomas begins to find cracks in the surface of his family’s blissful existence on the idyllic island. Taking inspiration from his comic book hero Fantomette, Thomas spies on those around him, discovering the hidden and tangled political and sexual lives of the colonizers and the colonized. As relocation looms, Thomas questions whether the memories he has made are ones he should remember fondly.… Expand

Director: Robin Campillo

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 117 min

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Jul 26, 2024

It’s a compelling, visually exquisite piece of work. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Jul 26, 2024

It captures beautifully and atmospherically a sense of mounting tension as the military men grapple with their impotency in a newly independent country. Read full review

Zachary Barnes

Aug 15, 2024

The director’s best-known film, “BPM,” drew from his later experience as an AIDS activist, and whereas that was an insular, immediate and impassioned portrait of a movement, Red Island takes a lusher, more leisurely approach to its mix of history and memory. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Mar 10, 2024

Its autobiographical elements are keenly felt, as Campillo grapples intelligently not just with the blind spots of his personal past, but those of his national heritage. Read full review

Ryan Swen

Aug 15, 2024

Red Island is at once lackadaisical and urgent, relaxed but with a clear eye for how swiftly everything will end for the characters at its center. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Aug 15, 2024

Red Island is by turns seductively sultry and frustratingly elliptical, with a structure that brings to mind matryoshka dolls, those colorful nesting figurines of differing sizes. For the most part, Campillo introduces these nesting elements just fine; it’s integrating them that proves difficult. Read full review

The Film Stage Alistair Ryder

Jul 26, 2024

The film may not hold together cohesively, but it’s still quite mystifying why it so spectacularly failed to resonate when its greatest sequences are beautiful evocations of the director’s childhood, both real and imagined, even if it is forever destined to live in the shadow of his previous semi-autobiographical work. Read full review

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