We’ll All Soon Be Talking About the Absurdist On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Rungano Nyoni’s lovely On Becoming a Guinea Fowl won a Best Director prize in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes this year. A24 will be releasing the film in the U.S, and it feels like a movie that will get people talking once it can be seen broadly. I suspect the blend of absurdist humor with horrific undercurrents will resonate.

“Dad, it’s Shula. I’ve found Uncle Fred’s body on Kulu Road,” our protagonist (played by Susan Chardy) offers without any...