Fresh
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.
Nina Caplan, Time Out
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Disgrace
Overview
Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter. After having an affair with a student, he moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.
Director and cast
- Steve Jacobs Director
- John Malkovich as David Lurie
- Jessica Haines as Lucy Lurie
- Ériq Ebouaney as Petrus
- Fiona Press as Bev Shaw
- Antoinette Engel as Melanie Isaacs
- Natalie Becker as Soraya
- Antonio Fisher as Sidney - Student
- Isabella De Villiers as Mrs. Cundell - Student
- Cindy Mkaza as Mrs. Mbeti - Student
- Liezl de Kock as Student Director
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The movie eventually begins to wilt under the sober, plodding direction of Steve Jacobs, but the thoughtful screenplay gives Malkovich a complex, increasingly reflective character arc that he plays with great feeling.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Demanding but ultimately rewarding...
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Rotten
Unfortunately, though Malkovich remains a compelling and cerebral screen presence, he comes off as too innately detached and prickly to elicit much empathy (not that his character is asking for it, mind you).
Gary Goldstein, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
Disgrace is an ugly movie, at times torturous to watch. It probably needs to be.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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