Disgrace (2008)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Steve Jacobs

Escritores:

J.M. Coetzee (novel)
Anna Maria Monticelli (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

26 diciembre 2008 (Norway)

Género:

Drama

Frase comercial:

What is a mad heart?

Plot:

After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics. |

Plot Keywords:

One Word Title | Based On Novel

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Faithful to a Fault

Reparto

Paula Arundell	...	Dr Rasool
Scott Cooper	...	Student
Eriq Ebouaney	...	Petrus
Jessica Haines	...	Lucy
John Malkovich	...	David Lurie
Fiona Press
Monroe Reimers	...	Board member
Charles Tertiens	...	Ryan

Duración:

Canada:120 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

País:

Australia | South Africa

Idioma:

Inglés | Xhosa | Afrikaans | Zulu

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Singapore:M18 | Netherlands:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Cape Town, South Africa

Compañía:

Fortissimo Films

Faithful to a Fault

Disgrace is based on J.M. Coetzee's prize winning novel. Its central character is a an English professor in South Africa and his relationship with a number of women including one of his students, his daughter and a lover. It's about race, sex, revenge, redemption, moral ambiguities, what is right and what is wrong; above all it's about the complex nation that is South Africa.

Having read the novel, I can say that the film is very faithful to the book. Perhaps if the movie can be faulted it is because the film adaptation is too faithful. We can clearly hear the author's voice in the movie but not the director's. It just does not resonate as it should have done considering the source material. This by no means to say Disgrace is not a good film; in fact it is a very good film, finely acted (especially by Malkovich) and well directed. But it is not a great film and one feels that if Steve Jacobs, the director had perhaps not remained so faithful to the novel, the film would have risen from the level of a very competent and faithful adaptation to a great and perhaps even a classic film.