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UN DIMANCHE À KIGALI moves between two time periods - before the Rwandan genocide and after - and the juxtaposition starkly reveals the devastation that took place over one hundred days. In the days leading up to the atrocities, journalist Bernard Valcourt meets Gentille, a waitress at a hotel, and they become involved. As tensions escalate, they find themselves in inescapable roles: she is seen as a Tutsi and her life is more endangered every day; he is a white foreigner who can leave at any time. Returning after the genocide, Bernard is desperate to find Gentille, who was detained as they fled together. This urgent unknown - what happened to her - creates a powerful inexorability that drives the film. Director Robert Favreau crafts a vivid, textured world where beauty and horror live side by side. The story unfolds with intelligence, emotion and uncompromising realism, and the cast is uniformly superb. Unsparing and visceral, the film is about a love that transcends impossible bounds. - Marguerite Pigott
14A (Sexual violence, violence, gory scenes, disturbing content)
Robert Favreau in person.
Toronto International Film Festival · Vancouver International Film Festival
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