Asakiyume mita

Neptune Frost is now available (for pay) through these streaming services (link includes Amazon and Apple, plus several others).

In addition, the soundtrack, Unanimous Goldmine, is also available.

This song, Mbere y'Intambara (Before the War), is my favorite. It's sung by Cécile Kayirebwa, a well-known, well-loved Rwandan singer, making her screen debut in this film.

And this piece, Terambere Ry'igihugu, shows the amazing, propulsive drumming--Himbaza Club, the drum collective that performs it, portray coltan miners in the film and are refugees from Burundi.

This film is such an aural/visual/linguistic tapestry--at moments crushing, but ultimately so very hopeful, and with so much moving poetry. I'll have a review of it coming out soon, but the long and the short of it is, I RECOMMEND IT!

Here's a new clip from the movie that the distributor made available on Youtube. It gives a good feel for the music, poetry, and cinematography.

Time held a mirror and reflected a world of parallels,
of fear and longing, with no sense of belonging.
But that dissonance became a song in me,
what should have destroyed me,
what attempted to gender or "boy" me,
set me free