Beauty (Skoonheid)

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Liam D @Mediawatcher2003 05/15/2024 An beautiful movie about sexuality and romance with great acting from the cast See more alan p 12/28/2022 Overlong snooze fest.. enlivened by a truly, and genuinely, shocking and repugnant scene of sexual violence that makes Irreversible look tame in comparison. See more 01/15/2021 A dark look into obsession and repression. See more 10/29/2019 if i should rate this movie out of 10 my rating will be -10000000000000 out of 10!! Thats how bad it is!!!! See more 09/27/2017 I needed to hug someone after watching Skoonheid. One, because I was happy to have just watched the best South-African film ever made, and two, to calm my nerves. Oliver Hermanus has made a rather brilliant, but exceedingly disturbing film. In a nutshell Closeted Francois's perfect life as a husband, father, entrepreneur is about to unravel as he meets the young and gorgeous Christiaan. Mood of the film You live inside Francois's emotionally suppressed mind for the entire film. It is a sombre place. Best one-liner Six two-tone- and golf-shirt-wearing okes stand around a kitchen table drinking beer in the middle of the day. A seventh oke rocks up and is soon followed by a very feminine person of colour. The original six immediately get their rugby shorts in a twist. "Geen moffies. Geen kleurlinge," is the explanation. Best performance Deon Lotz, according to rumour, is receiving many international acting offers. He deserves every one of them. He plays a closeted family man living a double live and observing everyone and everything around him carefully. Yet he makes you care about him. He sets you up for what ultimately happens. Stand-out scene I cannot discuss the scene that impacted me the most. It is truly upsetting, but wonderfully portrayed by a monstrous, but pathetic, Deon Lotz and a vulnerable Charlie Keegan. You will recognise the scene. Negatives? One or two things were not explained clearly. Why Christian needed the money? What the envelope full of cash was for? Or did I miss the point? What makes the film relevant today? It deals with the possibly explosive consequences of suppressing who you really are - whether you are gay, straight or simply stuck in a job you hate. It could all make you go "postal". FYI Skoonheid won the 2011 Queer Palmes award and was the first Afrikaans film selected to be shown at Cannes. It was also awarded the Best South African Feature Film as well as The Jury Special Mention Prize at the 2011 Durban International Film Festival. See more 03/12/2016 Everything that is well delivered in this movie,is so because of the amazing performance of Lotz.Lotz's acting is the body and soul of this entire film,which is too artsy and too long for my preferences. See more Read all reviews

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