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In My Country

2004

John Boorman

Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson, Langley Kirkwood ...

5.6

852

Drama. Romance It is 1995; Langston Whitfield travels to South Africa to report on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Washington Post. It is this commission’s task to bring to light the crimes committed during apartheid. The aim of the hearings is no so much to shed light on these sometimes brutal crimes, however, but to confront perpetrators with their victims. During these hearings, the tormentors of that period – thugs and prison ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Chuck Rudolph Slant	"[It] takes such a generic and wrong-headed approach to the telling of its story that it self-destructs in a minefield of naïveté and hypocrisy (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Country' tale doesn't quite ring true (...) It has scenes of undeniable power (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"[The screenplay] makes the fatal mistake of turning characters into mouthpieces"	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A potent, liberal-minded drama (...) The story as a whole is sufficiently nuanced to develop in unforeseeable directions, and Boorman gets the most out of the material."	POS
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"The combo of cultural cringe and a schematic, didactic screenplay strangles the human emotion in 'Country of My Skull,' an unquestionably sincere but dramatically stillborn outing"	NEG
United States	New York Post	"Sobering and important."	POS
United Kingdom	Sloan Freer Radio Times	"Events have an unrealistic, made-for-television feel that barely captures the deep significance and emotional intensity of these legal sessions (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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