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Red Island
In Red Island (2023, Rated R), Thomas lives his childhood with his soldier father and mother on a French army base in Madagascar; military families lead a peaceful life, but the innocent look of a child reveals the many dark sides of colonialism. Director Robin Campillo draws on personal history to evoke a sumptuously visualized 1970s childhood spent on one of the last remaining French colonial bases.