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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

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Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger, on a daily basis, at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank.
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Wendy Ide Observer (UK) It’s through his remarkable pictures of South Africa and Black America, however, that we really hear his voice. Rated: 4/5 Mar 9, 2025 Full Review Lucy Peters Little White Lies In its strongest moments, the film is paced with real tempo – a sense of sophisticated motion that runs in tandem with its subject matter of the concrete, bustling, yet fluid cityscape. Rated: 4/5 Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Jonathan Romney Financial Times Peck’s film amazes and appals but, above all, inspires. Rated: 5/5 Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Clotilde Chinnici Loud and Clear Reviews While I wish the movie was more innovative in the way it tells its story from a filmmaking point of view, its importance cannot be understated especially for those of us in the audience who might have not been familiar with the photographer. Rated: 3/5 Mar 14, 2025 Full Review Hilary A White Sunday Independent (Ireland) Celebrated Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck stays close to his natural habitat with this Cannes-winning documentary profile of exiled South African photographer Ernest Cole. Rated: 4/5 Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall This becomes a powerful, urgent historical record. And it has urgent resonance. Rated: 4/5 Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger, on a daily basis, at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank.
Director
Raoul Peck
Producer
Raoul Peck, Tamara Rosenberg
Screenwriter
Raoul Peck, Raoul Peck
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
Arte France Cinéma
Genre
Documentary, Biography
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 22, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 17, 2025
Box Office (Gross USA)
$57.9K
Runtime
1h 46m
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