![]() The fiction is interspersed with real TV news clips of the time from Michael Nicholson and a young Frederick Forsyth. But there is a heartfelt quality, and it is valuable for being a reminder of a piece of history that once, almost like Suez, dominated every dinner-table discussion among London's political classes, and showed how Britain's post-imperial legacy was pretty toxic. At other times, it looks more like a filmed theatrical piece. Unfortunately, the film is often stately and sluggish with some very daytime-soapy moments of emotional revelation. Their tempestuous private lives are made even more tumultuous by the history being made around them. Adapted and directed by Biyi Bandele, the film is well intentioned and certainly very well cast: Thandie Newton is the elegant intellectual Olanna and Chiwetel Ejiofor her husband, the conceited, bullish academic Odenigbo. Now comes the film of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 2006 novel Half of a Yellow Sun, about lives in Nigeria torn apart by the 1960s Biafran war: the attempt to create a secessionist state whose flag showed the top half of a hopeful rising (not setting) sun. ![]() Zadie Smith's White Teeth was adapted, with more success, as a television drama. S ome of Britain's notable "postcolonial" fiction has translated uneasily into cinema: Monica Ali's Brick Lane and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children didn't entirely work as movies. Half of a yellow sun, 2006: title page (Half of a yellow sun) dust jacket (novel) Instance Of. ![]()
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