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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Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.

Directed by: Steve Jacobs

Release Date: September 6, 2008

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  • September 6, 2009
    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)ood of Coetzee?s raw commentary on race, sexuality and power. John Malkovich plays David Lurie, a licentious Cape Town professor who pursues an affair with a student, then remorselessly and defiantly accepts a harsh punishment. He leaves Cape Town to spend time with his grown daughter Lucy (played by newcomer Jessica Haines) on her isolated Eastern Cape farm. Their lives are devastated when an attack leaves them both mentally and physically shattered, raising questions about the nature of their relationship and the circumstances of a changing political climate. Shot with breathtaking wide angles of the barren, beautiful South African landscape, Disgrace?s delivery is authentic and its aftertaste, bitter./AJ
  • August 28, 2009
    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)the film can capture the same asture and supremely beautiful landscapes created by j. m. coetzes skillfully drawn story, the lonesome and difficult unflinching human portrait.

    I shall anxiuosly await.
  • August 21, 2009
    I liked the book so im curious to see the movie, especially with John Malkovich in the lead role.
  • July 3, 2009
    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.
  • June 19, 2009
    Mooie film, wel wat deprimerend.

Critic Reviews


September 25, 2009
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

Demanding but ultimately rewarding... full review

September 24, 2009
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Disgrace is an ugly movie, at times torturous to watch. It probably needs to be. full review

September 24, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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

September 18, 2009
Bob Mondello, NPR

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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