On the drive home from a party, Shula (Susan Chardy) sees her Uncle Fred dead on the road. Shula’s chaotic drunk cousin Nsansa (Elizabeth Chisela) stumbles onto the scene and calls the authorities.
Content warning: This article contains references to sexual violence. In an interview with Le Cinéma Club, Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni said her film “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” (2024) does ...
In a different world, had she not been readying her long-awaited sophomore feature, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” for its Cannes premiere, Rungano Nyoni might have spent the past few weeks preparing ...
Shula is dressed Missy Elliott in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. Credit: A24 Uncle Fred has died. He died in the street across the way from a brothel in the middle of the night. Shula, Fred’s niece, is on ...
The black dramedy, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a candid cinematic work that carefully probes important topics of sexual abuse and generational trauma. The film follows a middle-class family living ...
When we first meet Shula (Susan Chardy), the quietly unbending protagonist of “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” she is driving home from a fancy-dress party, wearing dark shades, a gleaming metal helmet, ...
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