Robin Campillo’s RED ISLAND Releases in the US

Filmmaker Robin Campillo, whose 2017 Cannes award-winning drama BPM: Beats Per Minute reconstructed and celebrated ACT UP’s legacy of AIDS activism in France during the 1990s, once again draws on personal history with his latest film, reaching back further to evoke a sumptuously visualized 1970s childhood spent with his military family on Madagascar.

Growing up on one of the last remaining French colonial bases on the island, young Thomas (Charlie Vauselle) keeps a curious and observant eye on the adults around him, not least his parents (Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Quim Guterriez). Bonding with young Suzanne (Cathy Pham) over the Fantômette comic books, Thomas’s imagination and observational powers grow even as the world around him is about to die. Making striking use of a child’s perspective, Campillo’s carefully observed drama of a lost world is lyrical and clear-eyed in equal measure. DCP, 2022, France/Belgium/Madagascar, Drama, 116 minutes, Film Movement, French and Malagasy with English subtitles.

Directed and co-written by: Robin Campillo.
Starring: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Quim Gutiérrez, Charlie Vauselle, Amely Rakotoarimalala.

RED ISLAND opens in NYC on August 16, at Lincoln Center: get your tickets here!
It opens in Los Angeles at Laemmle Royal (get your tickets here) and in San Diego at Digital Gym Cinema (get your tickets here) on August 23.
It will be opening in Chicago on September 6 at Gene Siskel Film Center (tickets here).