Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is not only a stunning piece of art, but a stirring, scathing call to break the ...
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” makes a valid argument for speaking ill of the dead, especially if it bucks this respectful ...
Zambian filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s second feature starts with a dead body in the road. It ends with rage, righteousness, and a ...
The A24 flick strands audiences between realistic and speculative storytelling as a family copes with a complicated death.
Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a surreal and emotional journey through one family’s pent-up trauma.
RogerEbert.com spoke to writer-director Rungano Nyoni and star Susan Chardy over Zoom about the magnificence of the guinea ...
Few things are as dangerous as familial cultures of silence around the perpetuation of abuse. Of course, it's common for ...
being lectured about the animal world. It’s not until we nearly reach the end of On Becoming a Guinea Fowl that we learn a certain characteristic regarding this native, chicken-like creature.
A young woman is forced to host the funeral of the uncle who molested her in Rungano Nyoni’s lucid and incandescently pissed-off follow-up to "I Am Not a Witch." Rungano Nyoni’s lucid and ...
This image released by A24 shows Susan Chardy in a scene from "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl." (Chibesa Mulumba/A24 via AP) Shula is driving home from a fancy dress party one night when she encounters ...