2004 · drama · war · history
Hotel Rwanda
Directed by Terry George2h 2m2004
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
Our read: Hotel Rwanda (2004) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded drama · war · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured drama / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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