Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.
Leave your thoughts about Half of a Yellow Sun.
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesBiyi Bandele has excerpted their story from a much wider-ranging narrative, but the action here is still so tightly compressed that this feels like a precis for a movie twice its length. |
| The AustralianDavid StrattonThis epic approach to a terrible conflict incorporates newsreels and maps to make things clearer for the uninitiated. It's an impressive film on many levels, and a significant achievement for the embryonic Nigerian film industry. |
| Sydney Morning HeraldPaul ByrnesIt's a superb piece of work: fresh, harrowing and very humane. |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsA steamy soap opera unfolding against the backdrop of a cautionary history lesson reminding us that in Nigeria, the more things change, the more they stay insane. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaThe audience's attachment to and investment in these people lend powerful intimacy to the large scale epic trappings. |
| Detroit NewsTom Long"Half of a Yellow Sun" deals with human tragedy, but it never really makes a human connection. |
| Shockya.comBrent SimonA well-intentioned historical drama that gets caught up in the undertow of mawkish melodrama early on, never to fully recover. |
| Slant MagazineClayton DillardIt falls into the trappings of middlebrow literary adaptation by finding only sporadic means to convincingly adjudicate the trauma and anguish of its transitory epoch. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabEjiofor's role might not be as gruelling as his turn in 12 Years a Slave but he gives a nuanced and powerful performance as another character whose certainties about his life are undermined by brute circumstance. |
| Film4Ashley ClarkA valiant, but ultimately disappointing attempt to adapt a sprawling modern literary classic. |
