Sometimes in April
by Raoul Peck
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Actor: Carole Karemera, Fraser James, Idris Elba, Oris Erhuero, Pamela NomveteDirector: Raoul Peck
Brand: WINGER,DEBRA
Cinematographer: Eric Guichard
Producer: Raoul Peck
Writer: Raoul Peck
Editor: Jacques Comets
Producer: Daniel Delume
Producer: Joel Stillerman
Producer: Kisha Imani Cameron
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Kinyarwanda (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: HBO Home Video
Movie Reviews of Sometimes in April
Movie Review: How can we let this happen again?
Summary: 5 Stars
In the early 1900's its the Armenians, In the late 30's and early 40's its the Jewish people, also Australian half cast children ripped from their mother's arms (see Rabbit Proof Fence), and then Rwanda. It just makes you cry. Cry for the people, the victims - cry for the survivors, cry for us because political boundaries told us we cannot do anything to help. How can one nation, any nation stand by and allow this to happen? Why won't anyone step in and save Darfur region?
This movie beat out Hotel Rwanda in my opinion - however, That was good too.
Summary of Sometimes in April
(Drama) In April 1994, one of the most heinous genocides in world history began in the African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of 100 days, an estimated 800,000 people were killed in a terrifying purge by Hutu nationalists against their Tutsi countrymen. This harrowing HBO Films drama focuses on the almost indescribable human atrocities that took place a decade ago through the story of two Hutu brothers--one in the military, one a radio personality--whose relationship and private lives were forever changed in the midst of the genocide. Written and directed by Raoul Peck, (HBO Films' Lumumba) the movie is the first large-scale film about the 100 days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to be shot in Rwanda, in the locations where the real-life events transpired.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Featurette
Photo gallery
A clear-eyed look at the Rwandan genocide is offered in Sometimes in April, a frank take on the 1994 slaughter that claimed upwards of 800,000 lives. Some overlap with Hotel Rwanda is inevitable, and this HBO feature does have similarities, but without the strong suspenseful storyline of Hotel. Its protagonist (the strong Idris Elba, from The Wire) pieces together the past tragedy from the perspective of a decade-later war-crimes tribunal, where his brother is on trial. It's hard to know which is less bearable--the depiction of atrocities, such as mass murder at a girls school, or the second-guessing of the international community, which largely stood by while the horror was unfolding. (Like Hotel Rwanda, this film zeroes in on the U.S. government's distinction that "acts of genocide" occurred in Rwanda rather than "genocide," a Joseph Heller-like absurdity.) The plain style of director Raoul Peck, shooting on location in Rwanda, works for the subject; his film Lumumba was also a direct, blunt account of a tragedy in Africa. The approach doesn't work as well in the U.S. scenes, which feature Debra Winger as a concerned official; these just look clumsy. But the subject itself remains worthy of close attention. --Robert Horton
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