RED ISLAND
| 2024 – 117′ – Drama, Coming of Age.
Written by: Robin Campillo, Gilles Marchand.
Directed by: Robin Campillo.
Starring: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Quim Gutiérrez, Charlie Vauselle, Amely Rakotoarimalala, Sophie Guillemin, Hugues Delamarlière.
Official Selections: San Sebastian International Film Festival 2023, Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York 2024.
In French & Malagasy with English subtitles.
A Film Movement release. |
Living on one of the last remaining military bases amidst a hedonistic group of French armed forces in 1970’s Madagascar, 10-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 made are ones to remember fondly. Simultaneously a sensual evocation of discovering the adult world and a sober reflection of what it represents, Robin Campillo’s anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed 120 BPM weaves together the personal and political in a “visually spectacular [and] masterful portrayal of colonialism through a child’s eyes.” (The Upcoming).