Apparently, by 2004 artistic apartheid was still being practiced in South Africa as, in this film, the black victims of white oppression must try to fit their stories in between and around Juliet Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson's love affair. It's "Mississippi Burning" all over again as a Brit director goes to a country and culture not his own and proceeds to tell the wrong friggin story. And it's all done in a rather tedious manner as we are given lots of narration when we need action (i.e. The rather dull scenes set in The Truth And Reconciliation Hearings as well as Jackson's reporter interviewing, at great length, an Afrikaaner white supremacist) with occasional flashes of interest, like a surprisingly warm hearted exchange between Jackson and Binoche's mom (well played by an actor I've not heard of named Aletta Bouzuidenhout). Beautiful music, though. Maybe too much so for the subject. Give it a C.
Review of In My Country
