Sometimes in April
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Movie Reviews of Sometimes in April
Movie Review: "When we finally grasped the horror it was too late."
Summary: 5 Stars
SOMETIMES IN APRIL is the powerful and stomach-churning story of one family caught in the middle of the 1994 Rwandan genocide of one million Tutsis, Tutsi sympathizers and anybody else who got in the way of the Hutu army. Did you get that number? One million dead in the streets and their homes in 100 days! At one point our fleeing protagonist sees a convoy of dump trucks filled with dead bodies. He just stares wordlessly in disbelief.
One of the strongest virtues of the film, besides being filmed in location in Kigali, Rwanda, is how very un-Hollywood this film is. The main character (Augustin, a Hutu married to a Tutsi woman) is just a man. He's not weak or overly strong, he's neither a victim nor a hero he's a common human and that makes it very easy to identify with him.
This film has some highly graphic images that should not be seen by children (a dog eating a dead child, brutal machete hackings, children gunned down), but for adults this movie is a real eye-opener that needs to be seen. I cannot recommend SOMETIMES IN APRIL enough.
"We don't waste bullets on cockroach traitors!"
Movie Review: A Fantastic Film
Summary: 5 Stars
That has been unfortunately overshadowed by HOTEL RWANDA and it's hollywood marketing machine. Don't get me wrong...HOTEL RWANDA was a great film in it's own way. But SOMETIMES IN APRIL is a masterpiece that takes you into the houses, neighborhoods, villages, churches and schools of Hutu's and Tutsi's alike. It even takes you to the present day and the trials and village tribunals. You really get into the heads of some of the characters and can only imagine what they must have gone through and continue to go through. I also think this film stays away from some of the Hollywood pratfalls of hidden inspirational messages. It tells it like it was, and tells the stories of people just trying to survive...and trying to continue their lives, always realizing that the streets that they're walking on were once washed with blood. The country, and the people that survived, will never be the same. I watched this a week ago and haven't stopped thinking about it. I was moved to tears. If you don't have HBO right now, this movie alone is reason to get it. It's the best movie I've seen in a long time and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!Movie Review: Much better than Hotel Rwanda
Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes in April is a much better account of the rwandese genocide than Hotel Rwanda.
This is largely due to the fact that all scenes were shot in Kigali itself, that the director knows the context by heart (see his other remarkable movie "Lumumba"), that the story is more compelling and the origins of the conflict and the responsibility of the international community are well presented.
I have worked in Rwanda and talked to survivors. They depict what is shown in Sometimes in April: the survival among corpses, the dogs eating the corpses, the cowardice of church leaders, the hate radio and so much more that is depicted accurately in the movie. All is here without romancing anything. Just the naked reality as it happened.
A fabulous movie that would have deserved a better coverage by the media and several oscar nominations instead of Hotel Rwanda.
Movie Review: Better than Hotel Rwanda; either way, highly recommended
Summary: 5 Stars
1. I'm no expert on the Rwanda genocide but I've done more reading on the subject than the average person (just a statement of fact; not being... boastful).
2. As to be expected, there are more books on this subject rather than films, the most well known being Hotel Rwanda. I found this film to be much better; better written, acted, overall storyline more engaging and gripping, without any overt editorializing from a western viewpoint. On the otherhand, perhaps I feel that way because I read Paul Rusesabagina's book (An Ordinary Man), on which Hotel Rwanda was based, and it was 1000% better than the film.
3. Getting back from my tangent, this is a top rate film. Well done via HBO and all in involved in bringing / documenting this tragic story to film. Highly recommended viewing for all teens / adults.
Movie Review: Beyond Words
Summary: 5 Stars
In all my 30 years in existence I have never seen anything such as this; nothing I can think of can explain the elegance of this film. I once thought being human meant something until I watched this film and realized just how weak being human can be. Even though these are events of the past, the way they have been told in the present shed a new light on the subject. Unlike other stories told of genocides and massacres, this story was told of a place and of people with no value to the world around it. For that reason a film of this nature will not make the front page of your weekly release circular. For those of you who can see past the red tape, please hold on to this film, and see more than just the story it self.This film is a work of art on a new scale, and should be viewd the same.