Tommy Guns

Original title: Nação Valente

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

283

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Carlos Conceição, Leonor Silveira, Djucu Dabó, Ivo Arroja, Vicente Gil, André Cabral, Anabela Moreira, Ulé Baldé, Leonor Noivo, Vasco Viana, Artur Pinheiro, Gustavo Sumpta, João Arrais, Meirinho Mendes, João Matos, Miguel Amorim, João Cachola, Sílvio Vieira, and Diogo Nobre in Tommy Guns (2022)

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In 1974, after years of liberation war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where pro-independence groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl dis... Read allIn 1974, after years of liberation war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where pro-independence groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese Officer. Meanwhile... Read allIn 1974, after years of liberation war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where pro-independence groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese Officer. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which the... Read all

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

283

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 9 wins & 33 nominations

Featured review

1/10

Overburdened to the point of incoherence

A meandering repetitious film, devoid of characterization, rhythm, or honest political insight.

All those echoes of Jacques Tourneur, Pedro Costa or Miguel Gomes only betray the essences of what these film masters achieved in their vibrant and haunting critiques of colonialism. Conceicao tries too hard to emulate their styles and tempos, but he simply lacks the know-how and intellectual foundation to pull it off.

And just as sadly, the director fails to approach the eloquence of the zombie genre "master classes" achieved by true pop iconoclasts like Romero or Jarmusch.

Conceicao may be somewhat well-grounded in the history of his homeland, but he doesn't seem to comprehend the positive value of the terms "offhanded" and "entertaining". But credit is still due to Anabela Moreira as "Apolonia" for a valiant effort in what is otherwise a desert of film performance..