Yesterday

Yesterday
by Darrell Roodt

Yesterday
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Actor: Camilla Walker, Harriet Lenabe, Kenneth Khambula, Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase
Director: Darrell Roodt
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Hbo Home Video

Movie Reviews of Yesterday

Movie Review: Yesterday
Summary: 5 Stars

One of the finest I have ever seen. I lived in and observed life in Africa for 18 months, and feel that this movie captures the essence of rural life as I saw it. Some "professionals" might argue, for example, that no one would walk so far to seek medical help. However, I saw people walking everywhere, along freeways, in the country, in busy traffic. I have purchased and given away several copies to my American friends and wish that every person could have this touching glimpse of Africa.

Summary of Yesterday

After falling ill, Yesterday (Khumalo) learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa, Yesterday is an eloquent, unsentimental film that quietly builds an overwhelming emotional force
As beautiful as it is heartbreaking, the Oscar?-nominated drama Yesterday brings an intimate human perspective to the AIDS crisis in Africa. On the surface, it's a harsh and devastating story about bad things happening to good people, but such a limited description robs the film of its warmth and tender compassion. Best known for his 1995 drama Cry the Beloved Country, director Darrell James Roodt returns to his native South Africa for this moving and heartfelt portrait of a young, devoted mother named Yesterday (played by Leleti Khumalo, from Hotel Rwanda) who learns that she is HIV positive, and remains determined to stay alive until her young daughter Beauty (Lihle Mvelase) is old enough to go off to school. Her husband (Kenneth Khambula) is also stricken with AIDS, and Yesterday cares for him even as they are ostracized by fearful neighbors in their tiny Zulu village. One might expect a film about AIDS to be terribly depressing, and Roodt pulls no punches when conveying the emotional anguish of Yesterday's dilemma. But Yesterday is so visually beautiful in terms of its physical and spiritual landscape (it was filmed in the expansive KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa) that it's universally appealing, and the score by Madale Kunene adds just the right emotional seasoning to the film's ethnic roots. Anyone with a beating heart can relate to Yesterday's plight as a caring wife and mother, and Khumalo's performance is so lovely that she lights up the screen, even (and perhaps especially) during Yesterday's darkest hours. Without pounding on its point, Yesterday puts a human face on a global crisis that's too often viewed on impersonal terms. --Jeff Shannon

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