Guava Island
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Original title | Guava Island |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2019 |
length | 55 minutes |
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Director | Hiro Murai |
script | Stephen Glover |
production | Donald Glover |
music | Michael Uzowuru |
camera | Christian Sprenger |
cut | Isaac Hagy |
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Guava Island is an American musical film . It was directed by Hiro Murai and written by Stephen Glover . The main roles are played by Donald Glover and Rihanna . The film was presented and shown for the first time at the Coachella Festival on April 11, 2019 in America. On April 13, the film was released by Amazon Studios on Amazon Prime . The film was also broadcast 18 hours after the premiere via Coachella Stream on YouTube . Donald Glover was one of the headliners at the Coachella Festival.
action
Deni Maroon, a musician, lives with his girlfriend Kofi on the tropical island of Guava. There is a brutal group there, the paramilitary Red Cargo . Kofi works in a factory that is represented as a sweatshop , Deni secretly organizes a music festival , which Red Cargo rejects. The concert evening would delay the production of the particularly valuable blue silk, which is an important source of income for the group. The ruler of the paramilitary forces, Red , has Deni kidnapped and threatens violence if a concert takes place.
On the evening of the event, Red discovers that all of his workers have left the production facility to listen to Denis's music. An assassin shoots Deni.
music
During the film the following published songs were sung under Donald Glover's stage name Childish Gambino :
- This Is America
- Summertime Magic
- Feels like summer
The other songs sung in the film have not yet been released as a download or stream.
Rihanna can only be seen in the film as an actress and does not take on a singing role in the film.
Web links
- Guava Iceland in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jason Bailey: 'Guava Island' Review: Donald Glover's Island Getaway Is a Casual Charmer , The New York Times website, April 13, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film "Guava Island" - Rihanna as a seamstress in the tropical thriller. Retrieved September 14, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Donald Glover and Rihanna dropped their film "Guava Island" at Coachella | MTV Germany. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .