Petit pays (2020)
30KPetit pays: Directed by Eric Barbier. With Jean-Paul Rouve, Isabelle Kabano, Djibril Vancoppenolle, Dayla De Medina. A touching childhood set during the conflict in Rwanda between ethnicities Hutu and Tutsi – adapted from the book of Gaël Faye.
“Gael Fayeu0026#39;s book was awarded the Goncourt high school students prize .u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt depicts a lost paradise ,or the childhoodu0026#39;s harrowing end during three years (roughly 1992-1994) ; the first part is the (relatively) happy times of the young hero: thereu0026#39;re already cracks in the mirror; Gaby is the son of a white French building contractor and his black wife , whose family is still living in Rwanda : for Xmas ,she left her children to call on them ,and their children suffer accordingly .u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGaby leads a wild life with his friends , but heu0026#39;s a serious pupil at school where the teacher talks about democracy .u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn 1993 , the elections saw a Hutu president rise to power ,and the Tutsis ( dominating ethnicity ) are not prepared to accept it ; on October,the 21th ,the coup du0026#39; etat (in the army, the Tutsis were in the majority )sparks off the civil war between the ethnicities and the massacres.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe fateful day is treated in admirably succint style: gunshots, then the desert street of the village ,and the father (a restrained Jean-Paul Rouve) desperately turning the buttons of his radio ,getting no news.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe horrible massacres are seen through a childu0026#39;s eye ,and apart from the horrifying lynching (the man beaten up ,then burned in a car), they are suggested :when the car ,passes through dead bodies , the children are told :u0026quot;close your eyesu0026quot; ; the viewer may be lost in the politics ,and he feels all the more in a childu0026#39;s shoes ; the awful fate of his parents is treated with decency .The genocide in Rwanda is represented by the black and white photography of Pacifiqueu0026#39;s wedding (u0026quot;he was killed by his brothers in armsu0026quot;).”
