Beasts of No Nation
Beasts of No Nation is an act of gripping empathy.
Beasts of No Nation
In West Africa, the life of young Agu (Abraham Attah) is disrupted when his father is slaughtered in a civil war and he is drafted as a child soldier by a mercenary unit led by the sadistic Commandant (Idris Elba).
Genre
Drama,
War
Runtime
137
Language
English
Director
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast
Idris Elba
Awards:
Winner, Marcello Mastroianni Prize for Young Performer, Venice Film Festival
Nominee, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival
Nominee, Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globes
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Nausea-inducing as the massacres of men, women, and children in African nations like the Democratic Republic of Congo are, one fact stands out as even more unfathomably grotesque: A vast number of the murderers are children trained to kill without mercy. To fill the gulf in our imaginations is Cary ...
Played at
Fine Arts Theatre 12.18.15 - 12.24.15
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