L’ÎLE ROUGE / RED ISLAND

At the beginning of the 70s, in Madagascar, a few armed forces and their families live in one of the last French military bases abroad, a relic of the ending French colonial empire. Influenced by his reading of the intrepid comic book heroine Fantômette, Thomas, a ten-year-old boy, sweeps with a curious glance what surrounds him. Beneath the carefree expatriate life, his eyes are gradually opening to another reality.

ROBIN KOMPILO / ROBIN CAMPILLO

Robin Campillo (Morocco. 1962) has directed, written and edited the feature films They Came Back (2004), Eastern Boys (2013), Orizzonti Award in Venice, and 120 Beats Per Minute (2017), Grand Prix at Cannes plus the César for Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing. He is also the regular screenwriter and editor of Laurent Cantet, with whom he has written and edited films such as The Class (2008), Palme d’Or at Cannes and César for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Reveiws:

Extremely rich in suggestive detail and beautifully wrapped up by Lapoirie’s cinematography and Rebotini’s music, it perfectly recreates atmosphere of the lost paradise of the French colonialists.

Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa