Sunday, November 8, 2020

OUR LADY OF THE NILE ***



Afghan director Atiq Rahimi views he brewing war between the Hutus and Tutsis in the conflict between elite Rwanda schoolgirls, based on Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel. The setting revolves aroudn an elite girls’ school runs by nuns where Hutus are accepted and only a fraction of Tutsis are. Inside intrigue, including attempting to change the nose of a Virgin Mary statue to a true-like Tutsi nose that the girls pray to every day, sets the ominous turn of events of bloodshed and then full out massacre of war that devastated this country for years.

 

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