“The Guinea bird becomes a review: watchful eyes

Shala, the watchful heroine of stirring quietly “to become a Guinea bird,” is cut off from bold gestures. It is preserved, sometimes to the point of confrontation and giving it the silence. There is a great blessing to connect it but also an atmosphere of practiced caution. The only clear thing in Shula is that she recently returned to the comfortable Suburban family home in Zambia, and that she prefers clearly to look at her own work. When the puzzle reopens old shocks that in turn leads to a cultural account of bruises, SHULA quickly finds itself as everyone’s work as well.

It turned out that this discovery is the body of her uncle Farid on the path to which Shula (the new magnetic expatriate Susan Chalde) is heading at one night. On his way home from a party, Shala wears large sunglasses and shiny silver graphics indicating an impressive old military helmet. It looks like a glamorous foreigner, and it is somehow. When you give up a look at the body, you see that it wears an enlarged black suit. If you amplify it, it may float. Looking at what is happening – and the mysterious girl who is briefly fulfilled near the body – it’s a surprise that she is not trying.

Rongano Newoni, who was born in Zambia and grew up in Wales, knows how to put an entrance, and also does Shula. She is a great character, and while she gives you the introduction she arrested from the beginning, Shula keeps you tied all the time. HERS is a story of simple and fixed discoveries, a story that escapes from anxious visions and urgency. Shala keeps her calm so that she does not do it, and shortly after finding a unique body, she is prepared by different powers, including her sprawling family, acquaintances and the complex openness that threatens her. (This is the second narration feature of Nyoni; her first was “I am not a witch”, and she is a drama 2018 for an orphan of Zambi accused of magic.)

Shula’s discovery of Farid’s body leads to a series of meetings, by commemorates and elegance, in a story that winds over the secrets of the family, cultural standards and shock generations. It is heavy, sometimes, painful, although it is not crushing. It is very similar to the protagonist, NYONI retains a common distance, almost analytical-the photographer is appropriate and calm-where the story grows more complicated, there are no more complicated secrets, as the family arranges things. Even amid the increasing emotional disorders, the shoa remains together, keeping the viewer when removing. This gives you a space for breathing and thinking (you watch it too, wait), but the coldness of Shula leaves you also unprepared when you receive her reserves.

A lot of “Guinea Birds” focuses on Farid’s funeral, a detailed ceremony that is smoothly devoted to the topics of the story. It was not long ago that Shala was found a unique body, his body is moving to the family home and mourners start quickly to land. Some reach the door on their knees in the supplication situations, “Death comes to crawl.” Shala escapes for a short period, but relatives force her on her back, which is effectively turned by shouting into a stage by reality. Some women roam with Gusto performance, others are gossip and sneak to exchange drinks in the wings. At some point, the cousin of Shula NSANSA (Elizabeth Sisabethla), who is in a noisy drunk, talks about the painful truth; Likewise, another cousin, Bupe (Esther Singini).

While it is revealed, the funeral ceremony becomes a kind of films in a movie, sometimes it moves to a semi -documentary privacy. In the funeral rituals and compositions – in how those present and separation gather while they are alliances, vocal complaints, and settle – it expresses elegant family, cultural and social complications of the world of Shula, both of the attractions and their perfumes. Inside the house, women collect the kitchen preparing food, including a large number of men sitting abroad. When you ask Shola what some want to eat, she does it on her knees, echoing the millions of mourners. As NYONI does all the time, it does not decorate this scene; She does not need. She says everything you need with every image of the environment, with every silence of ringing and with the unlikely power of the Shula look.

To become a Guinea bird
PG-13 classification of great topics. Running time: 1 hour 39 minutes. In theaters.