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“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is not the first film about family secrets coming to light through grief, but it may be the most original. Rungano Nyoni’s amazing film — she wrote and directed — is ...
The animal, a pheasant-like sub-Saharan African bird, has a distinct call that alerts anything within earshot of an ...
You should watch the surreal new movie On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. It opens with a Zambian woman finding her uncle's body on the road. His death brings the family together from near and far, but also ...
Ella Lee Forest, a middle-class enclave just outside Loop 610, seems an unlikely place for a breed of fowl more suited to a ranch than ranch houses. But on any given day, this flock of skittish ...
There’s nothing like starting a movie with a running gag, and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl kicks off with a beauty. A young woman Shula (Susan Chardy) is driving home late at night. She ...
Rungano Nyoni won Best Director at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for her "I Am Not a Witch" follow-up. With her 2017 directorial debut “I Am Not a Witch,” Rungano Nyoni established herself as a ...
Susan Chardy as Shula and Elizabeth Chisela as Nsansa stand next to each other, looking at something, in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Image via A24 On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, a black dramedy directed by ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- When it comes to "whole animal" cooking, most restaurants tend to focus on pork, but one restaurant in Ukrainian Village is turning its attention to a bird, specifically a large bird ...
As best she can remember, Lynne Gehrke figures the flock of guinea fowl in her North Broad Street neighborhood in Mankato ...
No, the bowl is not in the shape of a turkey. This tureen is in the form of a guinea fowl. Guinea fowl is eaten sometimes in the United States, but it usually weighs less than 4 pounds and is much too ...
A semiwild guinea fowl that won the hearts of some Evanston residents last year will soon make his musical debut. Karl the guinea fowl became a local celebrity of sorts — think Vince Vaughn but louder ...