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2005 |
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104 minutes |
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Country of My Skull |
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John Boorman |
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John Boorman, Robert Chartoff, Kieran Corrigan |
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Sony Pictures Classics |
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Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson, Juliette Binoche |
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Anna Malan: Because of you this land no longer lies between us but within. It breathes becalmed, after being wounded in it's wonderous throat. In the country of my skulll it sings. Five thousand stories are scorched on your skin... I am changed forever... Forgive me. Forgive me. Forgive me...
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In My Country Reviews |
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When a reporter for the Washington Post, Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) finds out that the story he sent to his editor was buried on page seven, he went ballistic. "The subject is too remote," was the word back in our nation's capital. Too remote? Perhaps geographically, yes. Whitfield is covering a set of judicial hearings in South Afirca in 1996 when as TRC, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission," hears testimony from blacks who were harassed, tortured and sometimes killed by the then white government that ruled the country under the now defunct system of apartheid. There are ample events in history to lend universality to this movie's theme, though a youthful audience might consider the Nuremberg trials in Germany in1946 in which Nazi perpetrators of heinous act were judged by an allied commission to be ancient history. But how about the torture to which American troops subject Arab prisoners in Abu Gharib, humiliations that included a naked American woman's smearing fake blood all over the face of one of those being held as a suspect in terrorism? Ultimately "In My Country" resonates far beyond geographical borders and time periods, though under director John Boorman's watchful eye, photographer Seamus Deasy anchors the production in the specific locale of beautiful South Africa, particularly in and about the cosmopolitan city of Capetown.
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