The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts about Carlos Coneiçao’s Tommy Guns / Naçao Valente (Portugal, 2023) at Monstrous Industry! “I recently watched Jean-Denis’ A Woman Kills / La femme borreau (1968) and while A Woman Kills was made a half a century ago, during a time of revolution and independence movements–and shot during the May Paris Uprising–I think Carlos Coneição’s Tommy Guns / Nação Valente would make a good pairing with it. Both films look at violent men created in the crucible of defending colonization and empire. Both look at the damage these men and colonialism itself does to the citizens of a colonial power.”

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