Munyurangabo

Deux adolescents quittent Kigali, capitale du Rwanda. L'un (Sangwa) veut retrouver ses racines, passer quelques jours dans la maison familiale désertée depuis trois ans, puis suivre son ami (Munyurangabo) qui l'accompagne avant d'aller venger la mort de ses parents tués lors du génocide. La suite de l'intrigue est liée à la manière dont ce film a été élaboré.

In a recent issue of The New Yorker, Philip Gourevitch, author of the definitive English-language book on the 1994 Rwandan genocide, wrote about that country’s progress, 15 years after the killing, toward national reconciliation and political normalcy. “Munyurangabo,” a quiet, probing film by Lee Isaac Chung that was first shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, examines similar themes in a different [...] Vai alla recensione »

IT is safe to say that when most American filmmakers think about the global reach of their movies, they are not considering the concept in quite the same way as Lee Isaac Chung, whose first feature, “Munyurangabo,” happens also to be the first narrative feature made in Rwanda’s native language of Kinyarwanda. “I know this sounds idealistic, but it was a conscious decision to make a film for and [...] Vai alla recensione »