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2014
Not Rated
Kino Lorber
1 h 30 m

2014
Not Rated
Kino Lorber
1 h 30 m

Summary From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. [Kino Lorber]

Directed By: Göran Olsson

Written By: Frantz Fanon, Göran Olsson

2014
Not Rated
Kino Lorber
1 h 30 m

2014
Not Rated
Kino Lorber
1 h 30 m

Concerning Violence

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews

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Summary From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, based on newly discovered archive material covering the struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late '60s and '70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. [Kino Lorber]

Directed By: Göran Olsson

Written By: Frantz Fanon, Göran Olsson

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Top Cast

Lauryn Hill

Narrator in English version

Kati Outinen

Narrator in Finnish version

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Self - professor, Columbia University

Gaetano Pagano

Self - reporter

Tonderai Makoni

Self - PhD

Timothy

Self - white Rhodesian racist's servant

Robert Mugabe

Self - Zimbabwe African National Union

Robert Jackson

Self - Liberian labour activist

Olle Wijkström

Self - executive director, Liberian-American-Swedish Minerals Company

William Tubman

Self - president of Liberia

Sören Lagergren

Self - Liberian-American-Swedish Minerals Company

Simão Elias

Self - The Mozambique Liberation Front

António de Spínola

Self - military governor of Portuguese Guinea

Amilcar Cabral

Self - founder of Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde

Thomas Sankara

Self - president of Burkina Faso

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Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews

92% Positive
11 Reviews

0% Mixed
0 Reviews

8% Negative
1 Review

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews

92% Positive
11 Reviews

0% Mixed
0 Reviews

8% Negative
1 Review

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Dec 2, 2014

A commanding indictment of the exploitative nature of geopolitics, and of Europe's and the U.S.'s abuse of native peoples around the world.

By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW

Dec 3, 2014

In other words, Concerning Violence isn’t out to soothe its audience with platitudes about peace, love, and understanding. Its exploration of an entrenched system that breeds generations of oppression and violence is extremely upsetting yet still highly rewarding.

Dec 18, 2014

Though Fanon’s words serve to justify the seemingly unconscionable — violence — the film ends with a very different call to action, one that stresses the need for “new concepts,” as if trying to calm the blood the film has brought to a boil over the dense and daunting 80-odd minutes that have come before.

By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW

Nov 22, 2014

Olsson requires us to connect the dots to today's struggles (a missed opportunity), but his discoveries are more than sufficient.

By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Nov 22, 2014

It's a tough and cerebral but finally illuminating film.

By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW

Dec 9, 2014

While Fanon wrote with intense anger, he made his case more on an intellectual level than an emotional one, seeking to use his enemies’ words and logic against them. Olsson prefers to swing wildly.

By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

Dec 5, 2014

On both levels of the film, the archival and the textual, there’s much that’s fascinating and worthwhile. What’s regrettable is the refusal to contextualize and explore the ongoing ramifications of what we see and hear.

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Details

Production Company Final Cut for Real, Helsinki-filmi, Louverture Films, Story

Release Date Dec 5, 2014

Duration 1 h 30 m

Rating Not Rated

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Awards

Guldbagge Awards

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Berlin International Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Oslo Films from the South Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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