A24’s films On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Opus, and Death of a Unicorn will debut on HBO and be available to stream exclusively ...

Because the dead man was Shula’s Uncle Fred — and ... Chardy in ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ It takes a village to pretend nothing ever happened, and you can feel the rage building, slowly ...

in keeping a lid on the dead man’s crimes. (If you want to extend that to all of Africa and the planet as a whole, the director invites you to be her guest.) “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl ...

Pain and suffering are for the living; the dead have neither worry nor working ears. “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” makes a valid argument for speaking ill of the dead, especially if it bucks ...

He is dead because she wasn’t a good wife ... something Shula saw in a children’s show as a little girl. The guinea fowl is a ...

Filmmaker Rungano Nyoni's spellbinding melodrama On Becoming a Guinea Fowl begins with a woman named Shula (Susan Chardy) happening upon the dead body of her Uncle Fred on the side of an empty ...

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Susan Chardy in ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.’ (Chibesa Mulumba ... But there is an open secret that’s bubbling up to the surface now that Fred is dead: He was a predator and a pedophile whose abuse of ...

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is set in modern Zambia. Fred’s family are mostly made up of the Bemba of the Bantu peoples who strongly believe in never saying anything negative about the dead for ...

One cousin cheerily claims all is well now that Uncle Fred is dead. This contributes to “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’s” portrayal of the layers of family guilt, cultural expectations and generational ...

Uncle Fred is dead. That’s how Shula finds him ... From the moment Shula first appears in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, director Rungano Nyoni lets the quiet charisma of actress Susan Chardy ...

Shula is trying to process everything while dealing with a dead man, the cops ... as On Becoming a Guinea Fowl sketches out interlocking circles of complicity. This pedophile’s victims span ...