A Dry White Season
by Euzhan Palcy
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Actor: Donald Sutherland, J?rgen Prochnow, Janet Suzman, Susan Sarandon, Zakes MokaeDirector: Euzhan Palcy
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of A Dry White Season
Movie Review: Location, Location, Location
Summary: 3 Stars
I watched "A Dry White Season" primarily because Marlon Brando was in it. I admit that checking out his movies has been an up and down journey. However, his relatively brief appearance in "A Dry White Season" is a reminder as to why I persist. He steals the show in a film that is more focussed on shocking us than informing us. I must admit that the hopelessness of the racial and financial divide between White and Black in South Africa seemed to necessarily be overstated. That is until I remembered reading Coetzee's "The Age of Iron" and experiencing the same scenarios. It is all very disturbing although I'm still not sure if this is a depiction of how things were or how things still are.
Other than Brando, much of the rest of the acting is somewhat weak. The essence of the film is the shock and the suspense. I hung on to review the cast and credits and my eyes couldn't believe what I saw. This movie, released in 2005, was shot entirely on location in Zimbabwe. Exactly what message am I to take from that?
Summary of A Dry White Season
Schoolteacher Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) has been insulated all his life from the horrors of apartheid in his native South Africa. Perhaps he really didn't want to know. When the son of his black gardener is arrested and beaten as a result of a schoolboy protest in Soweto, at first he imagines the police must have had their reasons. However, the boy is picked up again, and this time he doesn't come back. Ben promises his servant that he will look into the incident, and discovers that the boy was killed simply to gratify the violent urges of Captain Stolz (Jurgen Prochnow), a "special branch" policeman. At long last he has gotten a glimpse into the truly arbitrary and violent nature of the system he has so long benefited from, and he hires Ian Mackenzie (Marlon Brando) to prosecute the killer. It is a foregone conclusion that Stolz will not be punished, but Mackenzie rises to new heights of withering sarcasm and irony in the courtroom. This situation turns Ben into a radical firebrand, which alienates him from his white friends and neighbors, as well as members of his family.Art House & International DVD Video
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