When House of the Dragon makes its highly-anticipated global debut this week, it won’t just be fans who will be poring over every scene.
09.08.2022 - 21:19 / variety.com
Guy Lodge Film CriticPortugal’s colonial past in Africa continues to haunt some of the country’s most vital and subversive filmmakers. With his remarkable second feature “Tommy Guns,” Angolan-Portuguese director Carlos Conceição’s steps into the same precarious territory sometimes occupied by Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes — borrowing, perhaps, a measure of the former’s visceral austerity and the latter’s shape-shifting playfulness, but mostly proving his own sly, supple talent.
Formally and structurally audacious in ways that build in power and meaning as the film unfolds, this study of a Portuguese military squad gradually unraveling in a remote, bloodied wilderness begins with a clear sense of time, place and space, before collapsing those certainties in a horror-tinged nightmare that nods to the sprawling impact of colonialism across eras. That brush of genre influence — comparable, in its subtle, dimension-twisting fluidity, to Mati Diop’s recent “Atlantics” — ought to heighten interest around “Tommy Guns” as it makes its way through the festival circuit, following a premiere in Locarno’s main competition.
Discerning distributors undeterred by the film’s stark violence and knotted thematic complexity would do well to play up its more puzzle-like qualities. If it’s unlikely to be an arthouse phenomenon, any acquisitions should be considered an investment in an ambitious filmmaker with the potential to be a mainstay in top-league fest lineups; “Tommy Guns” already represents a significant advance on Conceição’s Berlin-premiered 2019 debut “Serpentarius,” expanding on its sense of of continent-crossing political and spiritual unrest.The film’s opening act promises a rather more straightforward wartime drama than the one
.When House of the Dragon makes its highly-anticipated global debut this week, it won’t just be fans who will be poring over every scene.
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