Eriq Ebouaney, Fiona Press, Jessica Haines, John Malkovich, Scott Cooper
After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.
DVD Release Date: April 27, 2010
Stats: 127 reviews
Disgrace was an adaptation of novel written by J.M. Coetzee and directed by Steve Jacobs. The main character was English professor David Lurie, a cold and uncaring man played by John Malkovich.He was a professor at an South African University..He started an affair with one of his...( read more)
"Disgrace" crea un tono solemne que se enfoca enteramente en sus personajes. Para ello requiere de buenas actuaciones y John Malkovich y Jessica Haines crean poderosos retratos de personas complejas y dificiles. Aunque tiene un ritmo lento, la historia nos absorbe y jamas es sens...( read more)
I wanted to like this movie, mostly because of Malkovich, but... Everyone's performance is good, but the subject... the way the daughter accepts her fate, and the father that, don't know, didn't tried harder to convince her daughter, or tried to do... Maybe there's something I mi...( read more)
What is so fantastic about this powerful drama is not only its sheer intelligence in raising numerous questions on good and evil, morality and amorality, but that it is also gripping and completely unpredictable.
JM Coetzee?s bleak and brilliant post-apartheid novel is boldly and faithfully translated onto the screen by Aussie director Steve Jacobs and scriptwriter Anna Maria Monticelli. The film loses none of the sombre complexity of the Booker-Prize-winning story: it stays true to the m...( read more)
I read this novel in a fervered and trancelike state of mind, rapidly consuming the eloquent and strikingly cutting slim prose. And was a titter, a tremble and all around fucking overjoyed to hear that john malchovich would be starring in the film adaption.
I sincerelly hope ...( read more)
I liked the book so im curious to see the movie, especially with John Malkovich in the lead role.
What makes Disgrace difficult and rewarding, among other things, is its ruthlessly clear-eyed sense of its own terms and its refusal to find easy comfort or solutions. Deeply complex and thought-provoking.
Demanding but ultimately rewarding... full review
Disgrace is an ugly movie, at times torturous to watch. It probably needs to be. full review
I awaited the closing scenes of Disgrace with a special urgency, because the story had gripped me deeply but left me with no idea how it would end. None -- and I really cared. full review
Steve Jacobs' elegantly disturbing film follows the exploits - or, more accurately, the exploitations - of 52-year-old professor David Lurie, a dissolute aesthete whose erudition does little to mask g... full review
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