Disgrace R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 27, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Eriq Ebouaney, John Malkovich & Fiona Press | |
Directed by | Steve Jacobs | |
Screenwriting by | Anna Maria Montecelli | |
Composition by | Antony Partos & Graeme Koehne | |
Director of Photography: | Steve Arnold |
Entertainment Reviews:
This disquieting drama serves as a platform for Malkovich, whose eloquent performance draws you in with great compassion.
Little White Lies
Jacobs and Monticelli have approached their challenging source material with a clear and committed cinematic vision.
Los Angeles Times
3.5 stars out of 5 -- A simmering lead performance by John Malkovich anchors Aussie director Steve Jacobs' surprisingly deft screen adaptation of South African Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee's wildly-acclaimed 199 novel DISGRACE...
Box Office
4 stars out of 5 -- Skillfully adapted from JM Coetzee's novel, DISGRACE is set in post-Apartheid South Africa....Powerful and clear-eyed.
Total Film
John Malkovich's portrayal of an aging and sexually aggressive professor of poetry is enough to make the film worth anyone's while.
Washington Post
Rating: 4/5 --
It's an enormously complicated story with great potential for reductive schmaltz, but this is avoided thanks to Anna Maria Monticelli's sharp, sensitive screenplay and superb performances.
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Time Out
This chilly film gets surprisingly close to the tone of Coetzee's precise prose.
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Observer (UK)
Product Description:
John Malkovich stars in director Steve Jacobs' adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel concerning a Cape Town educator whose flight from scandal leads him into a direct confrontation with the lingering demons of apartheid. Fastidious Cape Town college professor David Lurie (Malkovich) may see himself as somewhat impervious, but he's about to bring about his own downfall due to a selfish and foolhardy relationship with a student who isn't afraid to drag their clandestine affair screaming into the light. When controversy erupts on campus as a result of the affair, David beats a hasty retreat to the countryside in order to lie low on his daughter Lucy's (Jessica Haines) remote farm in the Eastern Cape. However, David's fears for his daughter's isolation are soon confirmed when father and daughter are violently attacked by three black youths. In the aftermath of the horrific siege, David is deeply shaken to learn that one of their assailants is in fact a relative of trusted worker Petrus (Eriq Ebouaney), who lives peacefully alongside Lucy in the South African brush, and has even begun constructing a home at the edge of her property. Can these people somehow find grace in a country that's still struggling with its tragic history, or is that history destined to repeat itself forever into the future'
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- Sales Rank: 90,486
- UPC: 014381648423
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