Chicago Reader by Noah Berlatsky
Conceição has created a smart, strange film that is disjointed because colonialism is a thing of disjointed desires, histories, and deaths.
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Director
Carlos Conceição
Cast
João Arrais,
Anabela Moreira,
Miguel Amorim,
Ivo Arroja,
André Cabral,
João Cachola
Genre
Drama,
History,
War
As the Portuguese leave the colony of Angola after the civil war, a local girl falls in love with a Portuguese soldier. Meanwhile, another squad of soldiers must escape an infinite wall they have been barracked in when something from out of the past rises from the grave seeking a long-awaited justice.
Chicago Reader by Noah Berlatsky
Conceição has created a smart, strange film that is disjointed because colonialism is a thing of disjointed desires, histories, and deaths.
Variety by Guy Lodge
Conceição steps into the same precarious territory sometimes occupied by Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes... proving his own sly, supple talent.
Sight & Sound by Jessica Kiang
Tommy Guns builds, strangely, sneakily, to a parable of despair at the (predominantly masculine) mass delusion that is war itself
Screen Daily by Neil Young
Along the way there are occasional horror-movie touches, prefiguring an action-heavy Grand Guignol climax that provides a satisfying payoff to the picture’s interlocking enigmas.
New York Times by Natalia Winkelman
It’s a stylized spectacle, and the effects can feel discordant. Conceição eventually chips through the horror genre enamel to expose a message about the futility of war, but the tale’s miscellany of moods dulls its ultimate power.
The New York Times by Natalia Winkelman
It’s a stylized spectacle, and the effects can feel discordant. Conceição eventually chips through the horror genre enamel to expose a message about the futility of war, but the tale’s miscellany of moods dulls its ultimate power.
The Film Stage by Ethan Vestby
The idea of a moralist ghost story to be read under the covers with a flashlight isn’t so bad, but it gets lost under so much art-film ostentation.
Slant by Clayton Dillard
Carlos Conceição’s Tommy Guns unfolds less as a cunning mashup of war-movie and horror-comedy tropes than as a flatfooted genre hybrid.
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