Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Justin Chadwick Stars: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Deon Lotz. The recent death of Nelson Mandela lends an extra significance and poignant quality to this earnest but fairly conventional biopic. Mandela was of course the inspirational anti-apartheid activist, the political prisoner turned politician, and Nobel-prize winning elderly statesman who led South… Continue Reading »
BEAUTY
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Oliver Hermanus Stars: Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, Beauty is a powerful, challenging and confronting drama about passion, repression and infatuation. Winner of the Queer Palm award at Cannes, Beauty is a disturbing and provocative examination of one man’s damaging self-hatred, and it draws parallels with… Continue Reading »
