Movie No. 70 (2014): A WORLD APART
A World Apart (1988)
Director: Chris Menges
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May, Tim Roth, Jeroen Krabbe
Told on the point of view of a teenaged girl, this movie is about one white family's involvement in anti-Apartheid movements in 1960s South Africa. This girl's father and mother are so involved in these movements that she and her younger siblings are usually set aside. The mother gets arrested, the first white woman to be arrested for her anti-Apartheid writings. She gets arrested again just a few minutes after being freed from the first 90-day incarceration, which leads to her attempting suicide. Feeling even more sidelined, the daughter confronts her mother.
Director: Chris Menges
Cast: Barbara Hershey, Jodhi May, Tim Roth, Jeroen Krabbe
Told on the point of view of a teenaged girl, this movie is about one white family's involvement in anti-Apartheid movements in 1960s South Africa. This girl's father and mother are so involved in these movements that she and her younger siblings are usually set aside. The mother gets arrested, the first white woman to be arrested for her anti-Apartheid writings. She gets arrested again just a few minutes after being freed from the first 90-day incarceration, which leads to her attempting suicide. Feeling even more sidelined, the daughter confronts her mother.
While this movie is obviously political, having the social conflicts in South Africa as the theme, this is also well about the drama in a family on the verge of disintegration. This is one movie-watching experience that you wish you'd have again in the future.
Rating: 3.5/4.0
Date seen: September 15, 2014
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