Despite the politics surrounding the film, Adichie stressed in The New Yorker that the films real triumph is not in its politics but in its art, with Ejiofor and Newton giving the most complex performances of their careers. Bandele agrees. The headlines sometimes take the humanity, the individual out of history, he said about the latest stories coming from Nigeria. Art personalizes it. I hope that someone who goes and sees my film will see that yes, its a dysfunctional society, but people thrive there as well. They fall in love, fall out of love, do foolish things and nice things, and are just like people everywhere. abcnews.go/Entertainment/nigerias-nollywood-reaches-mainstream-half-yellow-sun/story?id=23627818&singlePage=true
Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2014 16:25:33 +0000