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‘How Do You Not Just Set Everything on Fire?’: A Film About a Zambian Family’s Dark Past Sets Cannes Ablaze

By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — The final, searing shot of Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a convergence of everything that’s come before. The film, about a sudden death and family secrets in Zambia, comes to a thundering conclusion in a shouting match that threatens to drown out all empathy. Trauma, misogyny and […]

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