To prepare the roasted guinea fowl, first finely chop 2 peeled garlic cloves, a sprig of rosemary, and 3 sage leaves (1) (2). Transfer everything to a bowl and season with the oil (3). Season with ...

Filmmaker Rungano Nyoni's spellbinding melodrama On Becoming a Guinea Fowl begins with a woman named Shula (Susan Chardy) happening upon the dead body of her Uncle Fred on the side of an empty dirt ...

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 ...

What’s the right way to grieve when the act won’t forgive a crime? In Rungano Nyoni’s entrancing, moody family drama “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” a young woman (Susan Chardy) returns home to navigate ...

The Zambian-British filmmaker builds on the considerable promise of her 2017 debut 'I Am Not a Witch' with this story of retributive anger fighting patriarchal tradition at an abuser's funeral. Her ...

Quick Take Vulturine guinea fowl’s blue and white plumage comes from feather structure, not pigments, creating vivid, long-distance visual signals. Bright colors and high-contrast patterns help ...

Rungano Nyoni made her name in 2017 with her Directors’ Fortnight entry I am Not a Witch, a surreal comedy of sorts in which a young Zambian girl named Shula is forced to choose between being turned ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

The black dramedy, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a candid cinematic work that carefully probes important topics of sexual abuse and generational trauma. The film follows a middle-class family living ...

Rungano Nyoni was grieving. Her grandmother had died, and her great uncle had issued an edict that the funeral not feature the wailing and singing and house visits of typical Zambian mourning. Instead ...

It takes about six to seven months for a guinea fowl to mature. George Ouma lifts his Guinea Fowl birds at his village in Imbo village, Rangwe in Homabay county. [Denish Ochieng, Standard] Domestic ...

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl stars Susan Chardy as Shula, a Zambian woman who discovers the body of her dead Uncle Fred lying in the road late one night. As the family convenes for the morning rituals, ...