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Released Year: 2015
Runtime: 137 minutes
Directors: Cary Fukunaga
Casts: Idris Elba, Jude Akuwudike, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Abraham Attah, Richard Pepple, Ama K. Abebrese, Kobina Amissah-Sam, Emmanuel Affadzi, John Arthur, Kurt Egyiawan, Ricky Adelayitor, Ernest Abbeyquaye, Nana Mensah, Andrew Adote, Francis Weddey, Fred Nii Amugi, Grace Nortey, Emmary Brown, Nataliah Andoh
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(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
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The Playlist -
Matching Fukunaga's proven storytelling grace with a story truly worth the telling, the result is explosively authentic and yet lyrical, making an utterly inhumane and alien situation both completely real and completely abstract.
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Entertainment Weekly -
Cary Fukunaga’s stark, beautifully shot drama was likely never meant to be a blockbuster; its brutal account of a child soldier in an unnamed African country is far too discomfiting for wider audiences. It absolutely does belong on a big screen, though, and more important, it just deserves to be seen.
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Hitfix -
Fukunaga not only directed the film but also co-wrote the screenplay and served as director of photography. His efforts have resulted in a brazenly confident piece of cinematic art where every image immerses you deeper and deeper into Agu’s horror.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
The necessity of circumstances dictates everything anyone does here and you can only react with varying degrees of outrage, anger, disgust, pity, empathy and, if you're a blind optimist, hope for something better.
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TheWrap -
Beasts of No Nation is the kind of sincere, powerful filmmaking that gives socially conscious drama a good name.
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Beasts of No Nation (2015)
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier.
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
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Information
Released Year: 2015
Runtime: 137 minutes
Directors: Cary Fukunaga
Casts: Idris Elba, Jude Akuwudike, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Abraham Attah, Richard Pepple, Ama K. Abebrese, Kobina Amissah-Sam, Emmanuel Affadzi, John Arthur, Kurt Egyiawan, Ricky Adelayitor, Ernest Abbeyquaye, Nana Mensah, Andrew Adote, Francis Weddey, Fred Nii Amugi, Grace Nortey, Emmary Brown, Nataliah Andoh
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A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. Follows the journey of a young boy, Agu, who is forced to join a group of soldiers in a fictional West African country. While Agu fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination Depicts the mechanics of war and does not shy away from explicit, visceral detail, and paints a complex, difficult picture of Agu as a child soldier.
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The Playlist -
Matching Fukunaga's proven storytelling grace with a story truly worth the telling, the result is explosively authentic and yet lyrical, making an utterly inhumane and alien situation both completely real and completely abstract.
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Entertainment Weekly -
Cary Fukunaga’s stark, beautifully shot drama was likely never meant to be a blockbuster; its brutal account of a child soldier in an unnamed African country is far too discomfiting for wider audiences. It absolutely does belong on a big screen, though, and more important, it just deserves to be seen.
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Hitfix -
Fukunaga not only directed the film but also co-wrote the screenplay and served as director of photography. His efforts have resulted in a brazenly confident piece of cinematic art where every image immerses you deeper and deeper into Agu’s horror.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
The necessity of circumstances dictates everything anyone does here and you can only react with varying degrees of outrage, anger, disgust, pity, empathy and, if you're a blind optimist, hope for something better.
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TheWrap -
Beasts of No Nation is the kind of sincere, powerful filmmaking that gives socially conscious drama a good name.
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