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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By NOGGIN
Format:DVD
Rarely can the adjective 'stunning' be used sincerely to describe a film but this one deserves it. Heart-rending, appalling, touching, and horrifying, it is - as other reviewers have suggested - absolutely must-watch material. It is hard to think of another film that portrays the horror of being caught up in a war, and in particular in the special horrors of a civil war, as this one does. I have not been able to get it out of my mind since viewing it several weeks ago. I hardly dare to go back and watch it again but simultaneously feel compelled to. Please watch it. It's a brilliant piece of film-making.
39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
By C L Andrews
Format:DVD
The film Sometimes in April completely grabbed me from the moment that it began watching until the closing credits and left me sitting in silence for several minutes afterwards, while I came to terms with what I had just seen.
The film is a story about a Rwandan man and his family and their experiences in the genocide. It is very true to the actual events of that period and the fact that it is filmed in Kigali means that those people who know the city will recognise certain places. This also gives it a far more authentic feel than Hotel Rwanda, most of which was filmed in South Africa.
And while this film does not pull any punches about the horror of the genocide, it manages to give the victims faces, names and stories, so that they are not lost in the sheer scale of the events portrayed. It also manages to show brutal scenes from road blocks and streets without decensitising the viewer to the violence which is taking place.
The story also shows the international aspect of what is happening, implicating the great powers for not stopping the tragedy. By the end one feels that they have been on a roller coaster ride through hope and despair and out the other side, with a number of difficult questions picked up along the way.
This is truly one of the most important films ever made!!!
The film is a story about a Rwandan man and his family and their experiences in the genocide. It is very true to the actual events of that period and the fact that it is filmed in Kigali means that those people who know the city will recognise certain places. This also gives it a far more authentic feel than Hotel Rwanda, most of which was filmed in South Africa.
And while this film does not pull any punches about the horror of the genocide, it manages to give the victims faces, names and stories, so that they are not lost in the sheer scale of the events portrayed. It also manages to show brutal scenes from road blocks and streets without decensitising the viewer to the violence which is taking place.
The story also shows the international aspect of what is happening, implicating the great powers for not stopping the tragedy. By the end one feels that they have been on a roller coaster ride through hope and despair and out the other side, with a number of difficult questions picked up along the way.
This is truly one of the most important films ever made!!!
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I'm a uni student and somehow stumbled across the Rwandan Genocide when trawling around Wikipedia one evening, and I was compelled to find out more. I was only 5 when it happened, so I didn't know anything about it until I began reading about it. After watching Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs, I can honestly say this film is effortlessly better than either (although both Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs are very, very good films). The film isn't injected with Hollywood make believe or told from the point of view of people who are not in actual peril themselves, nor does it portray the horrors in an impersonal yet graphic way. It follows the story of one moderate Hutu soldier who is married to a Tutsi, and how his life unravels completely when the genocide happens. The realism in the man's struggle is what makes this film so compelling, because the situations he is faced with are not Hollywood 'near-misses' or 'it goes bad, but then it turns out good', when things go wrong, they really go wrong and many times you feel your heart break for him and the supporting cast. It shows things in more detail than other films, and doesn't try to elicit emotions from you with certain camera tricks or narrative segments, it simply lets the situations unfold and lets you be a spectator, and this cold, unrelenting presentation of the events is what makes it so gripping.
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A Thoroughly Grim Film
The Rwandan Genocide was one of those events hard to imagine en masse thus obliging us to try to understand it at the individual level. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Charles Vasey
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Watched it once and will give it another go.
Great story and the movie doesn't shirk the horror. I don't like plots that employ flash backs to tell the story, it kind of takes the wings out of the sails a bit - robs the story... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. J. B. Poulton
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this has to be the film that is close to what happened back then. very moving, emotional story brilliantly acted by the actors. Read more
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Published 20 months ago by Ms. C. Palmer
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Sometimes in April - tell everyone about it
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Published on 23 Aug 2009 by Mr. Christopher E. Murphy
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Anyone with the faintest interest in Africa should read this book as it describes the real world in Rwanda during the genocide. Read it and wonder!
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