Disgrace

Australia, South Africa

2008

119 Min

Color

2.35:1

Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, English

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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EXEC Wouter Barendrecht, Julio DePietro, Michael J. Werner

PROD Steve Jacobs, Anna Maria Monticelli, Emile Sherman

SCR J.M. Coetzee, Anna Maria Monticelli

CAST John Malkovich, Jessica Haines, Natalie Becker, Antoinette Engel, Eriq Ebouaney, Cindy Mkaza, Charles Tertiens, Buyami Duma, Anne Looby, Monroe Reimers, David Ritchie, Barry Quin

PROD DES Annie Beauchamp, Michael Berg

Cape Town professor David Lurie blatantly refuses to defend himself for an affair with a colored student whom he gave a passing grade for an exam she didn’t even attend. Dismissed, he moves to his daughter Lucy’s farm, which she runs under most disadvantage terms, favoring the black locals. Yet rowdies violently robs and abuse them both, unprovoked. Lucy refuses to fight back, unlike David, who however is surprised by his own altruistic potential. —IMBd

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Film Coach

24Feb12

Ain't nobody clean. South Africa and its shameful attitudes and behaviors. Turn a blind eye to this film as those who turned the same blind eye to human atrocities.