Bloody Beans

On an Algerian beach kids splash about sleep squabble and then suddenly go to war And its neither Lord of the Flies nor La Guerre des boutons In her first film full of grace Narimane Mari films this childish freefor all closely at the irregular pace of an imagination inspired by the highest form of reality national History actually nothing less than the Algerian War of Independence When their makebelieve induces a general upheaval we follow the flock of children as they stamp their feet up the stairs invade houses cross village squares in a whirlwind of shouts and empty words Time is stretched like in a dream through a choreography of belligerent shadows or the nighttime explosion of the cemetery as so many warning signs of dangers to come