In My Country | AccessAtlanta

Awkward romance dilutes tale of apartheid aftermath
by Bob Townsend

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. And that clunky combo undermines what should have been an important film about race, violence and forgiveness. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Romance blossoms in the late 1990s between a married American Washington Post journalist and an Afrikaner poet/radio journalist who meet while covering the proceedings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

FILM FACTS ...

Sony Pictures Classics

'In My Country'

Director: John Boorman
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson
Run time: 104 minutes
Release date: April 1, 2005
Rating: R for language, including descriptions of atrocities, and for a scene of violence.
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On the web
Official movie site
View the trailer
Trailers require Quicktime

READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: C-
"...a leaden script that has costars Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson mouthing big statements more than acting."