Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

sobot The topic of this movie is very interesting, and it is the main reason for seeing it. At the beginning we arrive to South Africa at the moment of the fall of the apartheid. All we know about it are several fuzzy shots of violence during the opening credits, and now we listen to testimonies of victims and their families.This is a powerful experience, and the good side of the movie. The fact that there are people believing in peace and not revenge, despite of all the evil they suffered, affected me strongly.Unfortunately, the movie also has many flaws. Although Boorman is one of my favorite directors, this looks like a TV film from an inexperienced author. One of the reasons may be the fact that he used natives for most of the roles.But also there are some outrageous scenes. The main example is the one in which a boy whose parents were killed before him, and who couldn't speak for years because of this, hugs their murderer at the hearing. That practically ruins most of the impression gained up to that point.So I guess this is not a good movie, but not something you should avoid either. See it and decide for yourself.

user-520 I have been procrastinating allot this weekend watching movies, first I saw Disturbia - best teen horror movie to come out of Hollywood in a long time, then I accidentally saw Catch a Fire - I thought it was about something else and I decided to watch Country of My Skull as well. It actually turned out quite well, since I have an assignment due in 2 weeks about affirmative action in Social Psychology and these movies both just sensitized me again to that part of my heritage. For the ignorant however, our society is quite different from what is depicted in Hollywood dramas. There is still allot to be overcome, but we have achieved probably more than any other society have ever in terms of social trust - that's a difficult argument, but figure it out for yourself.Catch a fire was much better than this movie though, Juliette Binoche's role as a conscientious Afrikaans women isn't very accurate, and her emotional outbursts are to histrionic, almost psychotic. Both my parents were like that, and the dynamics of South African society gives far greater lea way than a foreigner would expect. It isn't necessary to act all guilty like for crimes you didn't commit and governance philosophies you didn't support to achieve acceptance among those affected by it. South African blacks are actually quite chilled out in general, if you simply show respect they act indiscriminately regarding the apartheid era. Maybe I'm just to young to really know.Between Tim Robbens, Juliette Binoche, the guy who was Stander and Leonardo Dicaprio; Tim and Leo's performances of white Southern Africans has been by far the best.

bernhardzils Why 8 stars ? John Boorman has made more "cinematographically" significant movies, in terms of artistic creation, but the grandness of a nations people shown in this movie dealing with its terrible wounds, is a great lesson in humanity.This movie just reached Belgium. It was never shown in our theaters, it was released as a DVD. I really would have loved to discover this picture in a theater. John Boorman conveys the magnificence of this country and its people, thus giving us breath enough to bear the unbearable. The rather sober way of acting leaves room for our own emotions.Thank you, Mr. Boorman !

michel-crolais A black journalist of Washington Post, Langton Whitfield; is sent by provocation by his boss to South Africa in order to "cover" the auditions of proceedings named Truth and Reconciliation Commission, that must decide if murders and torture authors can be amnestied if they say truth on act that they have made and express regrets in face of their victims. Langston encounters a young Afrikaner woman who follows also for South African radio the same sessions. She discovers the horror of Apartheid politics and she is bowled over by these facts. In these circumstances, Langston and Anna bring closer together. It is the story of the deep of human cruelty and also of the power of love and forgetting. The movie is dramatic and well played by Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche, but seems to be a little too oriented and melodramatic.