In My Country

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Based on Antjie Krog's memoir, Country of My Skull, John Boorman's new movie takes on a daunting subject, namely, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in South Africa. Beginning in 1996, two years after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, some 21,800 victims of the 'Grand Apartheid Plan' (enacted in 1948), told their stories and faced their abusers. According to the tradition of ubuntu ('African Justice'), as the policemen and other torturers participated in the hearings, admitted their crimes, and apologized, they would be granted amnesty.

A drama set against the backdrop of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, In My Country charts the lowest depths of pain and suffering and reveals the redeeming power of forgiveness and love. (Sony Pictures Classics)

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In My Country follows Anna Malan (Juliette Binoche), a white South African journalist, as she covers the public hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996. These were conducted throughout South Africa in the late 1990s. Perpetrators of crimes under apartheid had to confess in detail what they had done, and answer their victimsâ?? questions, in exchange for amnesty. Testimony was taken from more than 20,000 victims. The film should have been great because it covers a fascinating piece of recent history that touches on powerful emotions like guilt and forgiveness, but it ends up feeling false and excessively preachy.

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In My Countryâ??s important subject matter about the aftermaths of Apartheid gets lost in a film that tries to focus on too many characters and their stories, then gets mired in a meandering ending when it tries to resolve them all.Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/reviews/8677-in-my-country#F0JIQMgbbewB9MhI.99

Critics Consensus: A well-intentioned but melodramatic look at post-Apartheid South Africa.

In My Country is a 2004 English-language film directed by John Boorman, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche. The screenplay, written by Ann Peacock, was based on Antjie Krog's memoir Country of My Skull.

In the final decades of apartheid in South Africa, few observers thought power would change hands in the country without a bloody war. But white rule gave way peacefully to the Nelson Mandela government, and Mandela and F.W. de Klerk, the departing prime minister, shared the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Directed by John Boorman. With Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson, Menzi Ngubane. Langston Whitfield is a Washington Post journalist. His editor provocatively sends him to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, in which the perpetrators of murder and torture on both sides during Apartheid are invited to come forward and confront their victims. By telling the unvarnished truth and expressing contrition, they may be granted amnesty. Can the deep ...