This is a clarion call to remember that history is never quite over, it's a living breathing organism that refutes the practises and narrative of 'winners' and 'losers', and pushes us to think of the here and now.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2019

As for Hill, she has a voice that expresses all of her strengths and weaknesses, her beauty and her outrage. Few are as bold and as vulnerable as her.

| Aug 28, 2018

An incisive piece of philosophy which inspires rage through its measured presentation.

| Original Score: Recommended | Mar 27, 2017

A collage of archival footage, carefully curated to create a provocative think piece.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 25, 2015

A meditation on Frantz Fanon's plea to oppressed people to use violence against their colonial oppressors.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2015

Aside from a brief and uncritical preface by Columbia University professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, there's no attempt to contextualize Fanon's book.

| Feb 19, 2015

With not nearly enough signposts along the way to indicate where we are, either in time or place, it's an intimidating argument to follow, despite Olsson's rigidly organized structure.

| Dec 12, 2014

There are extraordinary images on display here. But it's difficult to understand why this film has emerged now.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2014

Olsson's The Wretched Of The Earth excerpts are well-chosen, and several of the vintage interviews from Swedish 온라인카지노추천 are jaw-droppingly on-point.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 5, 2014

In many cases, Fanon's astringent words seem as relevant today as ever.

| Dec 5, 2014

On both levels of the film, the archival and the textual, there's much that's fascinating and worthwhile. What's regrettable is the refusal to contextualize and explore the ongoing ramifications of what we see and hear.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 5, 2014

The energy here feels more like that of a lecture than of a film; it's an analytical tonic that's potent to the point of bitter.

| Dec 4, 2014

Its exploration of an entrenched system that breeds generations of oppression and violence is extremely upsetting yet still highly rewarding.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 4, 2014

Gran Hugo Olsson's profound essay doc aspires to upset in the truest sense.

| Dec 2, 2014

Here is a film that isn't afraid to risk didacticism in order to put across its vision of the debilitating physical and psychological effects of colonialism.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2014

It's a confrontational, direct and challenging piece of film-making; an illustrated lecture that muses on the legacy of European colonial rule in Africa and elsewhere and poses questions about cycles of power abuse and neo-colonialism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 1, 2014

Through it all, the changing nature of violence (destructive, cleansing, inevitable) is unravelled in illuminating, harrowing form.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2014

A powerful and provoking take on a violent and volatile era.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 28, 2014

The footage speaks for itself. I wish it had been allowed to.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2014

A timely and powerful exploration into the history of uprising in Africa as seen through the eyes of white liberals.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 28, 2014