South Africa/France/Germany
2011/digital cinema/98mins
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A dark and devastating portrayal of repression, torment and obsessive desire.
Francois lives a carefully controlled, if somewhat loveless married life with two children and a tidy house in Bloomfontein, South Africa. Yet for all his white, middle-class, well-meaning values, his life is thrown into utter disarray when he becomes totally infatuated with the 23-year-old son of a family friend. One of the most talked about films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it screened in the prestigious Un Certain Regard section, director Oliver Hermanus sets the film from its memorable first scene as an exercise in voyeurism, only to ratchet the tension inexorably to a dramatic climax – Francois battling lust and sexual frustration with violent self-loathing.
Screenings at Cannes, Durban, Melbourne and New Zealand Film festivals
Best South African Feature Film & Jury Special Mention Prize – Durban Film Festival
“An impressively controlled study of a macho Afrikaaner and the secret he hides from his family, his friends and himself” Lee Marshall, ScreenDaily
“Meticulously crafted… a slowly painted portrait of repression” Theresa Smith, Tonight
SKOONHEID
Writer/Director Oliver Hermanus Producer Dylan Voogt Cast Roeline Daneel, Sue Diepeveen, Charlie Keegan, Deon Lotz Print Source Palace Films
