Rag Tag

Rag Tag

Country:Nigeria, United Kingdom

Director:Adaora Nwandu

Program:African Panorama

Year: 
2006

Duration: 
99

Summary:

Rag and Tag (short for Raymond and Tagbo) are inseparable childhood friends who reunite after years of separation. During a trip to Nigeria they realize their feelings for each other are more than just friendship and their love blossoms. On their return to London, however, their relationship gets much more complicated. In this film Nwandu effectively manages, in a minimal setting, to depict how empty and suffocating life can be for gay Afro-Brits in an intolerant environment and how difficult it is for them to come to terms with their own feelings as well as those of everybody else around them. Nwandu’s charcters have enormous charm and the film is lightly energetic.