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‘On Becoming A Guinea Fowl’ Review: Family Secrets Unravel In Rungano Nyoni’s Zambian Funeral Drama – Cannes Film Festival
‘On Becoming A Guinea Fowl’ review: family secrets unravel in Rungano Nyoni’s Zambian funeral drama in a Cannes Film Festival premiere.
Opting for the latter, Shula is sent to a witch camp and put to work in the service of the community, the source of some uncomfortable satire, creating a space for Nyoni to explore the points of conflict between superstition and civilization in modern African society. Shula’s Afro-futurist outfit — a silver headset and a baggy jumpsuit that makes her look like a giant blueberry — is at odds with the rural surroundings, and even more conspicuous when she leaves the car to examine a body lying out in the road. Explaining two of the film’s key mysteries — that baroque title, and a little girl Shula sees peering quizzically at Fred’s lifeless body — On Becoming A Guinea Fowl wraps up with an ambiguous ending that makes perfect emotional sense while not effectively reconciling anything at all.
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