Arte broadcasts this Thursday, May 4 the first four episodes of the series Rwanda, the color of blood. Between historical drama and inhabited portrait, why should we watch this difficult but necessary series?
This Thursday, May 4, Arte begins broadcasting Rwanda, the color of blood (known in the original language as Black Earth rising), a series by Hugo Blick. Already at the origin of the flagship series The Honourable Women (our opinion) with the excellent Maggie Gyllenhaal as the head of a wealthy Anglo-Israeli businesswoman, and recently of The English (notre avis), the British director places his work in a cycle. In Rwanda, the color of blood he once again marries a strong female figure and geopolitics. The eight-episode mini-series, already available on Arte.tv., is it worth a look?
Rwanda, the color of blood (Arte): what is the series about?
And The Honourable Woman was centered on the impact of his character in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the director this time leans on the History of Rwanda. As in his previous series, Hugo Blick honors a female main character in the person of Kate Ashby, a young lawyer survivor of the genocide carried out by the Hutus against the Tutsi people. Between the secrets of great and small history, the heroine is caught up in the plots and the information passed over in silence by the various political authorities involved. She discovers that the heroes of yesterday are not necessarily those of today, and the wounds of yesteryear rekindle a still latent conflict.
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Rwanda, the color of blood: should we watch the Arte series broadcast this Thursday, May 4? Our opinion
Not wanting to miss any aspect of the Rwandan situation, the series also shows some complexities that make it not very fluid and sometimes difficult to understand. But the details are not there and remain necessary for the treatment of the still thorny subject. Casting side, already appeared in I may destroy you or Chewing Gum (in a very different register), Michaela Coel is masterful. The fragile young woman of the first episodes emancipates herself and transforms over the course of the season into a woman of action, a vigilante in search of her origins. At his side the no less excellent John Goodman (The big Lebowski, O’Brother, La famille Pierrafeu) gives him the reply in this essential series but for an informed public.
