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Concerning Violence (15)

Documentary, Drama

The most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule.

More information on this production is available at dogwoof.com.

The critical consensus

Olsson's film is designed to shame and provides a raw reminder of how greedy capitalist culture has exploited a continent and its people, but it is also a passionate, proud and deeply affecting educational tool which puts forward a plan of action by tracing a passage through the past.

****(*)Katherine McLaughlin, The List, 24/11/2014

A powerful and provoking take on a violent and volatile era.

****(*)David Parkinson, Empire Online, 24/11/2014

Fascinating and provocative.

****(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 28/11/2014

Upsetting in a way that frames upset as progress.

****(*)Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies, 27/11/2014

The film is a bleak but real portrait of an era, though it has nothing to say about what these nations are thinking and feeling right now.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 27/11/2014

Through it all, the changing nature of violence (destructive, cleansing, inevitable) is unravelled in illuminating, harrowing form.

***(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 30/11/2014

Where and when?

Cameo, Edinburgh on Tuesday December 2, 2014. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/

Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Monday December 8, 2014, until Tuesday December 9, 2014. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com

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