Cannes 2024: Three great movies in Un Certain Regard
While much of the attention and conversation on the French riviera is around the buzzy films competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or, often some of the beset films of the festival can be found in the Un Certain Regard section. Here are some of our favorites so far:
"On Becoming a Guinea Fowl" (dir. Rungano Nyoni)
Driving home from a fancy dress party in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across her uncle's body on an empty Zambian road. As the funeral unfolds, the dark secrets of her middle-class family — and of the man they mourn — begin to surface.
There's a sick joke at the heart of Rungano Nyoni's sophomore feature, and she knows exactly how to land it. A woman finds a dead man and nobody seems to care, least of all her. What unfolds is a funeral you can't look away from — absurdist, stinging, and unexpectedly funny in the way that only the most painful truths tend to be. Nyoni doesn't hold your hand through any of it. She just pulls you into the ritual…