Eriq Ebouaney, Fiona Press, Jessica Haines
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.
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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.
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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