tagged w/ Rwanda Genocide
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You can’t do a movie on genocide without showing a massacre – but how to do it? For Beyond the Gates, about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, director Michael Caton-Jones chose to treat it less like a message movie, and more like a thriller.
“It is a message film in some respects,” the film’s star Hugh Dancy told Current, “but if we start with, ‘This will be our message,’ we’re going to be doomed. The fact that the story is important does not mean it will tell itself. What drew me to the film was the script, and the shape of it, and the structure of it. I thought it did a brilliant job of building tension -- like in a good horror movie, without showing the monster.”You can’t do a movie on genocide without showing a massacre – but how to... more
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Beyond the Gates (known as Shooting Dogs in the U.K.) tackles a real-life incident from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, where a school in Kigali housed some 2,500 Tutsi refugees for a brief time before the UN abandoned them to be murdered by Hutu militias.
The Roman Catholic school, the École Technique Officelle, doubled as a base for the UN to supervise the peace between the Hutu and Tutsi, before the genocide started. As someone bearing witness to the events that take place, the well-intentioned English teacher Joe Connor, played by Hugh Dancy, becomes the conduit for the audience.
Beyond the Gates (known as Shooting Dogs in the U.K.) tackles a real-life incident... more
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The United Nations is demanding a full investigation into allegations of politically motivated killings of opposition figures in Rwanda in the run-up to the country's election next month.The United Nations is demanding a full investigation into allegations of politically... more
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