Valnei Nunes

1 month ago | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Taghi Amirani |Valnei Nunes |Raoul Peck

With a duration of 150 minutes, and a freeform structure heavily reliant on highly innovative montage, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat takes viewers on a loud and colourful journey across the developments that led to the murder of Congo’s first democratically elected leader, Patrice Lumumba. Most of the events take place in 1960. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) gained its independence from Belgium (“an independence rotten at the roots”) on June 30th of that year.

Oct 25, 2024 | dmovies.org | Paul Risker |Victor Fraga |Valnei Nunes |Bruce LaBruce

The English writer Oscar Wilde said, “Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious”.In The Bad Patriots, a conversation between the director Victor Fraga, the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and veteran social realist film director, Ken Loach, takes steps to reveal the viciousness of patriotism and its bias of nationalism over humanist values.

Oct 23, 2024 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Victor Fraga |Valnei Nunes |Bruce LaBruce

In a feature for The Telegraph, writer Simon Heffer decried Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) a “poisonous film about the war between the IRA and the inevitably wicked British”.