Rotten
It shows what can go wrong when a good-intentioned filmmaker mixes historical tragedy with Hollywood banality.
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
In My Country
A South African Story of Truth, Love and Reconcilliation
2004 · 1h 43m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
John Boorman
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In My Country
Overview
An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Director and cast
- John Boorman Director
- Samuel L. Jackson as Langston Whitfield
- Juliette Binoche as Anna Malan
- Brendan Gleeson as De Jagar
- Langley Kirkwood as Boetie
- Harriet Manamela as Albertina Sobandla
- Warona Seane as Translator
- Robert Hobbs as Van Deventer
- Fiona Ramsay as Felicia Rheinhardt
- Charley Boorman as Adam Hartley
- Menzi Ngubane as Dumi Mkhalipi
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
23%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Ostensibly about the aftermath of apartheid, but the pain of a people serves only as a backdrop for the most contrived of love stories.
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
Rotten
Is it a docudrama about South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings? Or is it love story? The problem with In My Country is that it tries to be both.
Bob Townsend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rotten
Black, white and clunky.
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Need[s] to be seen, as essential history and as demonstration of a form of social reckoning where compassion triumphs over passion, and the olive branch over the gun.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
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