Film
Afrika Eye: Rage
- Director
- Newton I. Aduaka
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 97 mins
A tough tale of inner city dreamers struggling to get their message heard through music, Nigerian director Newton I. Aduaka’s low-budget debut is a compelling journey of self discovery, with a shit-hot underground hip hop soundtrack to boot, including tracks from Bristol labels and artists, Hombre and Task and Bear. Rage is the tag of the central character Jamie (Fraser Ayres), a confused mixed-race youth with a rapping talent, who fires indiscriminately at anyone who challenges him. Patience is wearing thin for G (Sean Parkes), who’s breaking out of the black underdog mould with a rising profile as a jazz pianist, and for T (John Pickard), a displaced, middle-class white kid seeking cred from the B-Boys. With all efforts to raise the few grand to cut their record botched, the crew resort to a desperate burglary attempt. With several sub-plots keeping the pressure boiling, this is good stuff if you don’t mind your film served raw. The pace is fast and urgent, the music exhilarating, and the supporting characters help build a story that’s intense, edgy and very real.
It’s back on screen in the Afrika Eye festival’s Africa’s Lost Classics strand.
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