A Dry White Season
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Canada Movie Reviews of A Dry White SeasonMovie Review: and we're lost out here in the stars, little stars, big stars ...
almost an artifact today, as this pseudo costa-gavras take on south africas apartheid system is a bit heavy handed, but the power of donald sutherlands performance as a naive afrikaaners school teacher who awakens to the horrors of his comfortable sheltered life when a loyal family retainer is abducted and murdered by the police cannot be denied. while the character is a bit too naive to be credible, the impact of how he is betrayed by his friends and his own family (save for his young son, who is btw a very beautiful boy) raises the level. now interestingly, the main reason this movie is remembered at all is the greatest flaw in its structure: the overwhelming turn by marlon brando as an attorney who shows up mid-way thru the film, dominates it for half an hour, and then completely disappears into the vapors; brando gives one of his great late performances here -- but sadly it disjoints the movie. still, all in all, a worthy effort.
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