Fresh
The movie prefers to show snippets of life and let the audience make the connections. Many of these scenes prove memorable.
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
Overview
Africa in the sixties. The Nile perch, a ravenous predator, is introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment, causing the extinction of many native species. Its meat is exported everywhere in exchange for weapons, creating a globalized evil alliance on the lake shores. An infernal nightmare in the real world that wipes out Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Director and cast
- Hubert Sauper Director
- Elizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga Nsese as Self - Pilots' Girlfriend and Singer
- Raphael Tukiko Wagara as Self - Night Guard
- Dimond Remtulia as Self - Fish Factory Owner
- Marcus Nyoni as Self - Airport Police Officer
- Sergey Samarets as Self - Ilyushin-76 Captain
- Jonathan Nathanael as Self - Young Painter
- Msafiri 'Safiri' Habat as Self - One-legged Street Boy
- Dima Rogonov as Self - Singing Pilot
- Vladimir Tarasenko as Self - Air Navigator
- Jura Biriuchev as Self - Freight Supervisor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
If Sauper is fired up by anti-globalist conviction, his instincts as an artist and as a man rule out any kind of rhetoric or cheapness.
David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh
The words Being poor is like being old are scrawled on the door of a shack; like this movie, it's a howl waiting to be heard.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
Darwin's Nightmare is an urgent, horrific, yet at times oddly blinkered vision of the crisis of modern Africa.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
In unflinching terms, it captures the hellish existence endured by the many so that the few may wallow in privilege.
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly
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