Petit Pays (2020)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 111 minuten
Alternative title: Small Country: An African Childhood
Country:
France / Belgium
Directed by: Eric Barbier
Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Isabelle Kabano and Djibril Vancoppenolle
IMDb score:
6,6 (966)
Releasedate: 26 August 2020
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Petit Pays plot
"When The Innocence Of Childhood Faces History"
In 1993, ten-year-old Gabriel lives in Burundi, together with his French father – an entrepreneur – and his Rwandan mother and sister Ana, in a comfortable neighborhood with expats. His daily life is thoroughly disrupted when the small African country is brutally torn apart by a historical conflict. Violence is sweeping the country.
Reviews & comments
Filmkriebel
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- 10013 messages
- 4679 votes
The genocide in Burundi viewed through the eyes of a family, especially the young children Gaby and Ana. Another special feature is that the father is a white entrepreneur and the mother is a Tutsi. The carefree romp soon takes an ominous turn when genocide breaks loose. The political upheavals are communicated to the viewer via radio and TV archives. A weak variant of Hotel Rwanda, actually, in which the impact of the genocide is elaborated far too weakly. This aside, I have not been bored now, but this film will not stay with me for long.
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Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
The genocide in Burundi through the eyes of a young boy who sees his happy, carefree life replaced by fear and sadness.
Film spares us a multitude of gruesome images, but narrates and suggests enough to form an idea about the inhumanity of such frenzied civil wars.
Translated from Dutch · View original
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