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...White directors wouldn't have thought of putting the Rodney King footage in the movie, or of the American flag burning to the X, or even of using Nelson Mandela. Richard Attenborough did a movie called Cry Freedom that was supposed to be about Stephen Biko. But that movie is more about Donald Woods and his family trying to get out of South Africa. So if Attenborough had done this film, the main character would have been a sympathetic white reporter and nothing about Malcolm...
...didn't Attenborough do a sympathetic portrayal of Gandhi...
Artistically, A Dry White Season may aspire to less than the previous movies, since it lacks both the epic ambition of Richard Attenborough's Freedom and the psychological delicacy of Chris Menges' World. Emotionally, however, it has a force unmatched by the other movies on this subject. For the new film does not stir you to thought (if you still need to think over apartheid, you are probably brain damaged) or sympathy (if you still lack compassion for South Africa's blacks, you probably need a heart implant). It stirs you to outrage...
COMPARISONS between A World Apart and Cry Freedom, Richard Attenborough's recent film about journalist Donald Woods' scrape with the South African government, are inevitable. The two films are, in fact, quite similar, although A World Apart had the misfortune to be released second. Many question the merit of making films about South Africa that focus on white liberals. Yet with A World Apart, this approach seems justified, not because First's life is more heroic than those of Black leaders, but because her family's lifestyle perfectly parallels that of middle class Americans. And since the film centers...
Revolt in South Africa: Richard Attenborough' s Cry Freedom. -- Anarchy in South London: Hanif Kureishi' s Sammy & Rosie Get Laid...