Venice: 'Beasts of No Nation' Takes A Young Boy Into The Heart Of Darkness (Review)

Cary Fukunaga’s eagerly anticipated adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s 2005 novel about the forging of a child soldier is every bit as good as one might have hoped. It’s a harrowing, heart-breaking and physically exhausting account of the loss of innocence. The fact that the experience of the boy on screen is currently being replicated a quarter of a million times worldwide, at a conservative estimate, gives the story a terrible currency. But it’s Fukunaga’s storytelling chops, aided by what is arguably Idris Elba’s best performance on film – better than his Mandela – that lend this message movie its indispensable aura. Iweala told the story of Agu (Abraham Attah), a...

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