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Director: Justin Chadwick. With Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Tony Kgoroge
THE START OF a new school year at a small Kenyan primary school, 2004, as Kimani Maruge arrives to take up his place and learn to read and write. Nothing unusual then – except that Maruge is 84- years old and a former Mau Mau fighter who will test his government’s ‘education for all’ policy to the limit. The two leads are excellent, as are the photography of the Kenyan locations and the unaffected playing of the young children. An inspiring film that continues the promise the director showed with The Other Boleyn Girl.
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