Red Island

Red Island

2023 · 116 min · FR · 6.1 (19 votes)
Dir. Robin Campillo · Starring Charlie Vauselle, Quim Gutiérrez, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Sophie Guillemin, Hugues Delamarliere, David Serero
Drama

Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.

VIBE

A sun-drenched, hazy dream of childhood on the cusp of change. It's a wistful look back at a fading era, where innocence meets the slow, inevitable march of history. Feels like a memory you can almost touch.

nostalgicmelancholicwistfuldreamyslow-burnvintage aestheticarthouse dramacoming-of-agechildhood innocencecolonialism's endloss of innocenceidentity
1970scoming of agefrench colonialism