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Disgrace
Steve Jacobs Australia/South Africa, 2008, 120’
AWARDS and FESTIVALS FIPRESCI, Toronto Film Festival, 2008 Pusan International Film Festival
PRESS QUOTE “A focused, absorbing meditation on race, class, history and sex.” ~ Eddie Cockrell, Variety
“I awaited the closing scenes of Disgrace with a special urgency, because the story had gripped me deeply but left me with no idea how it would end. None — and I really cared.” ~ Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
SYNOPSIS Steve Jacobs directs and John Malkovich stars in this adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel concerning Cape Town. David Lurie (Malkovich), a fastidious Cape Town college professor, may consider himself somewhat impervious to harm, though he is about to bring about his own downfall due to a selfish and foolhardy relationship he has with a student who isn't afraid to drag their clandestine affair screaming into the light. When controversy erupts on campus as a result of the affair, David beats a hasty retreat into the countryside in order to lie low on his daughter Lucy (Jessica Haines)' farm in the Eastern Cape, where after this flight from scandal leads him into direct confrontation with the lingering demons of apartheid. David fears for his daughter's isolation there, and his fears t are soon confirmed when father and daughter are violently attacked by three black youths. In the aftermath of the horrific siege, David is deeply shaken to learn that one of their assailants is, in fact, a relative of trusted worker Petrus (Eriq Ebouaney), who lives peacefully alongside Lucy in the South African bush, and has even begun constructing a home at the edge of her property. Can these people somehow find grace in a country that's still struggling with its tragic history, or is history destined to repeat itself forever again into the future?
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DISGRACE