Neptune Frost

Neptune Frost
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written bySaul Williams
Produced by
Starring
  • Elvis Ngabo
  • Cheryl Isheja
  • Kaya Free
CinematographyAnisia Uzeyman
Edited byAnisha Acharya
Music bySaul Williams
Production
companies
  • Swan Films
  • Sopherim
  • Knitting Factory Entertainment
  • SPKN/WRD
  • Quiet
  • Carte Blanche
  • Redwire Pictures
Distributed byKino Lorber
Release dates
  • July 8, 2021 (2021-07-08) (Cannes)
  • June 3, 2022 (2022-06-03) (United States)
Running time
110 minutes
Countries
  • Rwanda
  • United States
Languages
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Kirundi
  • Swahili
  • French
  • English
Box office$203,393[1][2]

Neptune Frost is a 2021 science fiction romantic musical co-directed by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman and starring Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo and Kaya Free. Set in a post-civil war Rwanda spanning past, future, and present times, the film follows the relationship between an intersex hacker and a coltan miner. Ezra Miller is a producer and Lin-Manuel Miranda an executive producer.

It had its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors Fortnight section on July 8, 2021, and was released in the United States on June 3, 2022, by Kino Lorber to critical acclaim. Neptune Frost is the name of a black Revolutionary soldier who served in the Continental Army in 1775.[3]

Neptune Frost uses music, African oral tradition[4] and song-poetry to express the complexity of Burundian and Rwandan identities explored in the film.[5] The narrative structure unfolds through musical and rhetorical allegories[6] around themes of patriarchy[7] and feminism.

  1. ^ "Neptune Frost (2022)". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
  2. ^ "Neptune Frost (2021)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
  3. ^ Sparling, Georgia (Jun 5, 2018). "Historian seeks to honor forgotten black soldiers". Lesley University. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  4. ^ Nzabatsinda, Anthère; Mitsch, R. H. (1997). "The Aesthetics of Transcribing Orality in the Works of Alexis Kagame, Writer of Rwanda". Research in African Literatures. 28 (1): 98–111. JSTOR 3819921.
  5. ^ Gates, Marya E. "Female Filmmakers in Focus: Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams on Neptune Frost | Interviews | Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com/. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  6. ^ https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrEqGgYaVlk2C81DTsPxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZANMT0NVSTA5M0NfMQRzZWMDc2M-/RV=2/RE=1683610008/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.thoughtco.com%2fallegory-definition-1692386%23%3a~%3atext%3dAn%2520allegory%2520is%2520the%2520rhetorical%2520strategy%2520of%2520extending%2cequate%2520to%2520meanings%2520that%2520lie%2520outside%2520the%2520text./RK=2/RS=ANmQbyA6iwkHeigqal_NvbnSPNc-[permanent dead link‍]
  7. ^ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/patriarchy [bare URL]