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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

  • Rated PG 13
  • 1hr 35m
  • 87

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Rungano Nyoni

Producer:

Tim Cole, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe

Release Date:

Dec 13, 2024

Runtime:

1hr 35m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Susan Chardy
  • Roy Chisha
  • Blessings Bhamjee
  • Chungu Bwalya
  • Maggie Mulubwa
  • Benson Mumba
  • Henry B.J. Phiri
  • Elizabeth Chisela
  • Doris Naulapwa
  • Mary Mulabo

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88
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.

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Metacritic review by Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
90
Mar 9, 2025

In its atmosphere of gnawing discomfort with imposed secrecy about bad men, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a uniquely dimensional work of character and temporality. Nyoni’s brilliance is in portraying the gap between public and private, past and present, as spaces where submerged feelings awkwardly co-exist, leaving nobody able to feel truly whole.

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Metacritic review by Robert Abele
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
80
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.

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Wendy Ide
The Observer (UK)
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