{"id":16753,"date":"2024-05-31T16:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T16:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=16753"},"modified":"2025-12-02T20:59:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:59:38","slug":"red-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/red-island\/","title":{"rendered":"RED ISLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16754\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/red-island-temp-poster-250x334.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/red-island-temp-poster-250x334.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/red-island-temp-poster-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/red-island-temp-poster.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h2>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<h2>RED ISLAND<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2024 &#8211; 117&#8242; &#8211; Drama, Coming of Age.<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Robin Campillo, Gilles Marchand.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Robin Campillo.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Nadia Tereszkiewicz,\u00a0Quim Guti\u00e9rrez,\u00a0Charlie\u00a0Vauselle,\u00a0Amely Rakotoarimalala,\u00a0Sophie Guillemin,\u00a0Hugues Delamarli\u00e8re.<br \/>\nOfficial Selections: San Sebastian International Film Festival 2023, Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York 2024.<br \/>\nIn French &amp; Malagasy with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Film\u00a0Movement release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Living on one of the last remaining military bases amidst a hedonistic group of French armed forces in 1970\u2019s Madagascar, 10-year old Thomas begins to find cracks in the surface of his family\u2019s blissful existence on the idyllic island. Taking inspiration from his comic book hero Fantomette, Thomas spies on those around him, discovering the hidden and tangled political and sexual lives of the colonizers and the colonized. As relocation looms, Thomas questions whether the memories he made are ones to remember fondly.\u00a0Simultaneously a sensual evocation of discovering the adult world and a sober reflection of what it represents, Robin Campillo\u2019s anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed 120 BPM weaves together the personal and political in a \u201cvisually spectacular [and] masterful portrayal of colonialism through a child\u2019s eyes.\u201d (The Upcoming).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/athome.fandango.com\/content\/browse\/details\/Red-Island\/3499373?cmp=rt_where_to_watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch now<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RED ISLAND | 2024 &#8211; 117&#8242; &#8211; Drama, Coming of Age. Written by:\u00a0Robin Campillo, Gilles Marchand. Directed by:\u00a0Robin Campillo. Starring:\u00a0Nadia Tereszkiewicz,\u00a0Quim Guti\u00e9rrez,\u00a0Charlie\u00a0Vauselle,\u00a0Amely Rakotoarimalala,\u00a0Sophie Guillemin,\u00a0Hugues Delamarli\u00e8re. Official Selections: San Sebastian International Film Festival 2023, Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in New York 2024. In French &amp; Malagasy with English subtitles. A Film\u00a0Movement release. | Living on one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coming-of-age","category-drama","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16753"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19999,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16753\/revisions\/19999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}