RED ISLAND | L'ÎLE ROUGE

FRANCE, BELGIUM | 2023 | COLOR | DCP | 116’ | FRENCH

In 1970s Madagascar, a 10-year-old comics-loving boy takes in the tropical paradise around him. His vivid imagination feeds on the surroundings. Soon, however, he will have to face the world of the adults and experience the first cracks in the ideal image they have of him. Drawing from personal recollections and military diaries, the director of ‘120 Beats Per Minute’ directs an ostensibly discreet but richly detailed coming of age story, placed at the end of colonialism. History and nostalgia clash with rationality and morality, while the director discloses artfully the essence out of what remains unspoken, identifying us with his petite protagonist. Th.K.

DIRECTOR: Robin Campillo
SCREENWRITERS: Robin Campillo, Gilles Marchand
DoP: Jeanne Lapoirie
MUSIC: Arnaud Rebotini
EDITORS: Robin Campillo, Anita Roth, Stéphanie Léger
PRINCIPAL CAST: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Quim Gutiérrez, Charlie Vauselle, Amely Rakotoarimalala, Hugues Delamarlière, Sophie Guillemin, David Serero

ROBIN CAMPILLO
French filmmaker, born in Morocco in 1962. He has won the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival, won 4 Cesar awards and is a recognized figure in international festivals and the commercial circuit.

FILMOGRAPHY
2023 Red Island
2017 BPM (Beats per Minute)
2013 Eastern Boys
2004 They Came Back