Tommy Guns

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Tommy Guns

Released Apr 12, 2023

1h 59m

War

Drama

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In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where independentist groups gradually claimed their territory back. TOMMY GUNS gives a dual perspective on this struggle: a tribal girl who discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier; and a group of Portuguese soldiers who are barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long awaited justice.

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Jessica Kiang

Sight & Sound

Tommy Guns builds, strangely, sneakily, to a parable of despair at the (predominantly masculine) mass delusion that is war itself

Apr 19, 2023

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Noah Berlatsky

Chicago Reader

Conceição has created a smart, strange film that is disjointed because colonialism is a thing of disjointed desires, histories, and deaths.

Apr 15, 2023

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Natalia Winkelman

New York Times

Conceição eventually chips through the horror genre enamel to expose a message about the futility of war, but the tale’s miscellany of moods dulls its ultimate power.

Apr 12, 2023

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Sarah Vincent

Cambridge Day

Described as an anti-colonial horror film, Conceição’s second feature marks a swing and a miss because it centers on the plight of the Portuguese men forced to kill in the name of their country, not their victims.

Rated: 1.5/2

Aug 16, 2023

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

In its rich visual vocabulary and control of complex tonal gambits, Tommy Guns is a daring, distinctive work of art.

Jun 12, 2023

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Vikram Murthi

Reverse Shot

The director’s stylistic convolutions never seem incoherent per se, but while they aesthetically impress, they also give off a sense of clumsy desperation and can’t quite carry the weight of the film’s thematic ambitions...

Apr 18, 2023

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Roger M

By far, one of the best films of 2022. A delightfully anti-unanimous war allegory for the ages. Absolutely a must-see.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/23/23

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Rodrigo B

Absolutely astonishing work.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/01/24

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MovieZorg M

A highly ambitious work in its concrete depiction of political hatred, fear, and the metaphysics of tyranny. A film with a haunting, fable-like quality, which holds a mirror to our face.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/14/23

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In 1974, after years of civil war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where independentist groups gradually claimed their territory back. TOMMY GUNS gives a dual perspective on this struggle: a tribal girl who discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese soldier; and a group of Portuguese soldiers who are barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long awaited justice.

Director: Carlos Conceição
Producer: Leonor Noivo, João Matos, Luísa Homem, Pedro Pinho, Susana Nobre, Tiago Hespanha
Screenwriter: Carlos Conceição
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Production Co: Terratreme Filmes, Virginie Films , Mirabilis
Genre: War, Drama
Original Language: Portuguese
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 12, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 30, 2023
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.7K
Runtime: 1h 59m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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