Hotel Rwanda
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Desmond Dube, Don Cheadle, Joaquin Phoenix, Sophie Okonedo, Xolani Mali Director: Terry George Brand: TCFHE/MGM Writer: Terry George Producer: A. Kitman Ho Producer: Bridget Pickering Producer: Duncan Reid Producer: Francesco Melzi d'Eril Producer: Hal Sadoff Writer: Keir Pearson DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 2.35:1 Running Time: 121 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-04-12 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) |
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Movie Reviews of Hotel Rwanda
Movie Review: Addressing a genocide requires more than good moviemaking skills...
Summary: 2 Stars
Reducing the massacre of 800,000 people to the acts of bravery of a single man is a disturbing approach to dealing with the 1994 Rwanda genocide. This movie is well directed and well acted but it is plagued by the obsession of Hollywood's producers to glamorize terrible historical events by making the suffering of hundreds of thousands a simple background to the actions -- albeit courageous -- of an individual. We have seen that before in movies such as "Schlinder's List" or "Saving Private Ryan". "Hotel Rwanda" goes as far as delivering a feel-good ending, just the type of movie we might have been watching on a Sunday night of Spring 1994 while overlooking the terribly efficient implementation of a genocide in a vague and far away place.
It is very unfortunate that the marketing noise that surrounded the release of "Hotel Rwanda" drowned the launch of a much better movie on the subject: "Sometimes in April", produced by a director with an African viewpoint and shot on location in Rwanda, not in South Africa like the comfortable "Hotel Rwanda".
"Sometimes in April" is an excellent movie that focuses on the events as experienced by the Rwandan people and not just one man in a relatively cosy position responding to them.
"Hotel Rwanda" is good film making, but it is not good education. And in the scope of this tragedy, learning is essential.