In Scholastique Mukasonga’s semi-autobiographical novel Our Lady of the Nile, the author describes a Catholic boarding school she attended high on a hill in Rwanda. The girls came from the country’s elite and were educated to be the future ruling class, until the long-simmering conflict between the majority Hutu and minority Tutsi broke out into genocide, and 27 members of her family were killed.
In this terrifying film adaptation, director Atiq Rahimi shifts his lens from his native Afghanistan, the setting of Earth and Ashes and The Patience Stone, to the misty jungles of Rwanda in 1973, 20 years before the ...
In this terrifying film adaptation, director Atiq Rahimi shifts his lens from his native Afghanistan, the setting of Earth and Ashes and The Patience Stone, to the misty jungles of Rwanda in 1973, 20 years before the ...
- 9/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In Scholastique Mukasonga’s semi-autobiographical novel Our Lady of the Nile, the author describes a Catholic boarding school she attended high on a hill in Rwanda. The girls came from the country’s elite and were educated to be the future ruling class, until the long-simmering conflict between the majority Hutu and minority Tutsi broke out into genocide, and 27 members of her family were killed.
In this terrifying film adaptation, director Atiq Rahimi shifts his lens from his native Afghanistan, the setting of Earth and Ashes and The Patience Stone, to the misty jungles of Rwanda in 1973, 20 years before the ...
In this terrifying film adaptation, director Atiq Rahimi shifts his lens from his native Afghanistan, the setting of Earth and Ashes and The Patience Stone, to the misty jungles of Rwanda in 1973, 20 years before the ...
- 9/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Rwanda-born writer Scholastique Mukasonga’s 2012 novel “Notre-Dame du Nil” is not specifically about the 1994 Rwandan genocide but rather how class division, colonialism and economic disparity created a toxic stew of resentment and prejudice that made the genocide possible. By using a Rwandan all-girls Catholic boarding school as her microcosm, she lays out how the seeds of ethnic hatred were planted, nurtured and encouraged to blossom. Still, any adaptation of Mukasonga’s book holds the promise of being that long-awaited great film about the country’s ethnic strife and how it exploded into a historic bloodbath that saw members of Rwanda’s Hutu majority slaughter 800,000 of their countrymen, mostly members of the Tutsi minority, in only three months.
If “Our Lady of the Nile” is ultimately not the definitive telling of the genocide, it is something equally valuable: the tragedy’s illuminative prequel, a straightforward origin story faithfully adapted from an essential text.
If “Our Lady of the Nile” is ultimately not the definitive telling of the genocide, it is something equally valuable: the tragedy’s illuminative prequel, a straightforward origin story faithfully adapted from an essential text.
- 9/6/2019
- by Mark Keizer
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired Atiq Rahimi’s “Our Lady of the Nile” (“Notre-Dame du Nil”), the Kabul-born novelist-turned-director’s follow up to the “The Patience Stone.”
“Our Lady of the Nile” is adapted for the screen by Rahimi and Ramata Sy from the award-winning novel by Scholastique Mukasonga and unfolds in Rwanda in 1973.
Pic takes place at a prestigious and secluded Catholic boarding school, where the girls, an ethnic mix of majority Hutus and only 10% Tutsis, are groomed to be the Rwandan elite. But some deep-seated antagonism between the groups begins to arise at the school as well as throughout the country.
Now in post, “Our Lady of the Nile” is produced by Dimitri Rassam at Chapter 2 and Les Films du Tambour (“Sibel”).
Nicolas Eschbach, Indie Sales’ co-founder, said the “script depicts in a very vibrant and heartbreaking way the birth of the dramatic events that occurred between Hutus and Tutsis 21 years later.
“Our Lady of the Nile” is adapted for the screen by Rahimi and Ramata Sy from the award-winning novel by Scholastique Mukasonga and unfolds in Rwanda in 1973.
Pic takes place at a prestigious and secluded Catholic boarding school, where the girls, an ethnic mix of majority Hutus and only 10% Tutsis, are groomed to be the Rwandan elite. But some deep-seated antagonism between the groups begins to arise at the school as well as throughout the country.
Now in post, “Our Lady of the Nile” is produced by Dimitri Rassam at Chapter 2 and Les Films du Tambour (“Sibel”).
Nicolas Eschbach, Indie Sales’ co-founder, said the “script depicts in a very vibrant and heartbreaking way the birth of the dramatic events that occurred between Hutus and Tutsis 21 years later.
- 2/7/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile)
Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi moves into the French language with his third feature Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile), produced by Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha and Dimitri Rassam (a co-production between The Drum and Chapter 2 Films). The film is based on the 2012 novel by Scholastique Mukasonga. Noted French actor Pascal Greggory presides over a cast including Amanda Mugabekazi, Albina Kirenga, Malaika Uwamahoro, Clariella Bizimana, and Belinda Rubango. Rahimi’s 2004 debut Earth and Ashes premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes. His 2012 sophomore film The Patience Stone (read our read / interview) starred Golshifteh Farahani and premiered in the Toronto International Film Festival.…...
Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi moves into the French language with his third feature Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile), produced by Marie Legrand, Rani Massalha and Dimitri Rassam (a co-production between The Drum and Chapter 2 Films). The film is based on the 2012 novel by Scholastique Mukasonga. Noted French actor Pascal Greggory presides over a cast including Amanda Mugabekazi, Albina Kirenga, Malaika Uwamahoro, Clariella Bizimana, and Belinda Rubango. Rahimi’s 2004 debut Earth and Ashes premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes. His 2012 sophomore film The Patience Stone (read our read / interview) starred Golshifteh Farahani and premiered in the Toronto International Film Festival.…...
- 1/2/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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