Disgrace (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 27, 2010
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Malkovich, Fiona Press & Eriq Ebouaney | |
Directed by | Steve Jacobs | |
Screenwriting by | Anna Maria Montecelli | |
Composition by | Antony Partos & Graeme Koehne | |
Director of Photography: | Steve Arnold |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
It's hard to say what this solid but unadventurous film adds to Coetzee's powerful source material.
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Times (UK)
Jacobs and Monticelli have approached their challenging source material with a clear and committed cinematic vision.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Surprisingly successful adaptation.
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Empire Magazine
3.5 stars out of 5 -- A simmering lead performance by John Malkovich anchors Aussie director Steve Jacobs' surprisingly deft screen adaptation of South African Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee's wildly-acclaimed 199 novel DISGRACE...
Box Office
Rating: 3/5 --
A worthwhile film which is concerned to do the right thing by a modern classic.
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Guardian
“[D]emanding but ultimately rewarding....Nothing is simple in this film, which ramifies into parallel meditations on race, the transformation of racial politics and lessons to be learned from the lives of dogs.”
Wall Street Journal
Its characters are uncompromisingly themselves, flawed, stubborn, vulnerable....This is one of the year's best films...
Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
John Malkovich stars in director Steve Jacobs' adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel concerning a Cape Town educator whose flight from scandal leads him into a direct confrontation with the lingering demons of apartheid. Fastidious Cape Town college professor David Lurie (Malkovich) may see himself as somewhat impervious, but he's about to bring about his own downfall due to a selfish and foolhardy relationship with a student who isn't afraid to drag their clandestine affair screaming into the light. When controversy erupts on campus as a result of the affair, David beats a hasty retreat to the countryside in order to lie low on his daughter Lucy's (Jessica Haines) remote farm in the Eastern Cape. However, David's fears for his daughter's isolation are soon confirmed when father and daughter are violently attacked by three black youths. In the aftermath of the horrific siege, David is deeply shaken to learn that one of their assailants is in fact a relative of trusted worker Petrus (Eriq Ebouaney), who lives peacefully alongside Lucy in the South African brush, and has even begun constructing a home at the edge of her property. Can these people somehow find grace in a country that's still struggling with its tragic history, or is that history destined to repeat itself forever into the future'
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- UPC: 014381648553
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