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Kambole Campbell Empire Magazine Rungano Nyoni is one of the most exciting voices in cinema today and On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is abject proof: a disquieting, blistering examination of a family where social status trumps blood ties. Rated: 4/5 Dec 24, 2024 Full Review Tara Brady Irish Times With the cinematographer David Gallego, the sound designer Olivier Dandré and a superb ensemble cast, Nyoni has crafted indelible tableaux, powered by dark survivors’ humour, blistering originality and retaliatory fury. Rated: 4/5 Dec 12, 2024 Full Review Danny Leigh Financial Times But if the movie keeps us at a distance, it also knocks us off balance to bracing effect. Nyoni has a powerfully dreamlike touch. Rated: 4/5 Dec 7, 2024 Full Review David Parkinson Radio Times The cast is exemplary, as are the cinematography and sound design that keep the viewer engaged and agitated, as a hidebound family blithely tears itself apart. Rated: 4/5 Dec 21, 2024 Full Review Hilary A White Sunday Independent (Ireland) Nyoni has an eye not only for the absurd but also the political, with fleeting but telling moments of cultural chauvinism stirred into the busy diorama. Rated: 4/5 Dec 17, 2024 Full Review Jim Ross TAKE ONE Magazine Nyoni's feature is a slow-paced film but one with a unique and exacting grasp on tone. As the film opens, it may seem as daft as a coot, but the powerful perspective of ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL is delivered with an eagle eye. Dec 10, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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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, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni's surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

Director

Rungano Nyoni

Producer

Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Tim Cole

Screenwriter

Rungano Nyoni

Distributor

A24

Production Co

A24, BBC Film, Element Pictures

Rating

PG-13 (Thematic Material|Sexual Abuse|Suggestive References|Some Drug Use)

Genre

Comedy, Drama

Original Language

English

Release Date (Theaters)

Mar 7, 2025, Limited

Runtime

1h 35m