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Based on the Booker prize-winning novel by Nobel Literature prizewinner J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace sees Professor David Lurie’s (John Malkovich) life fall apart after he has an impulsive affair with one of his students.
Forced to resign from Cape Town University, where he lectures in Romantic Prose, he escapes to his daughter Lucy’s (Jessican Haines) farm in the Eastern Cape.
Their relationship is tested when they both become victims of a vicious attack. In order not to lose the love of his daughter, David stands by her as she accepts her tragic circumstances.
She continues her life on the farm and their individual disgrace finally settles to an uneasy grace. Jessica Haines’s character, Lucy, brings a balance to the film, tolerating her father, not without love, while challenging his misogyny and outdated thinking.
The film presents some interesting ideas about the complex nature of forgiveness and reconciliation and can be taken as a metaphor and insight into the soul of the larger political situation which dogs South Africa today.
Steve Jacobs’ film finds a positive note to end a thought-provoking exploration of a man and a country as they struggle towards redefining their identity and core beliefs.
Awards; Toronto International Film Festival, 2008 - International Critics' Award, FIPRESCI
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Australia/South Africa / 2008 / 120mins / Director: Steve Jacobs / Cert: 18 / Fortissimo
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