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    Red Island Beguiles and Meanders

    A group of people on a beach watch paratroopers descend from the sky.

    An impressionistic, loosely constructed, and visually striking reminiscence, Robin Campillo’s long-anticipated follow-up to his heralded 2018 film 120BPM, Red Island (L’île rouge) reconstructs the memories of its adolescent protagonist from his boyhood in 1970s Madagascar. At times, those memories are inchoate, others unreliable, yet they are always engaging and striking, hinting at an adult world […]

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