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Selections included the Boston premier of the South African film Boesman and Lena, starring Danny Glover and Angela Bassett, and The Brothers, featuring Harvard's Tatyana...
With its lack of glamour, muddy backdrop and plain-clothes nature, Boesman and Lena, the final film of the late John Berry, is not going to be a huge box-office hit. However, its sheer simplicity, truthfulness and humanity will draw dedicated and attentive viewers with its burst of reality, thus making Boesman and Lena the perfect film to open the Harvard Black Arts Film Festival...
...Mecca) classic play takes movie-goers to the theater in more ways than one.Boesman and Lena starts with a jolt, in the middle of something that seems to be still looming over the two titular homeless wanders. Lena (Angela Bassett) stands alone in the middle of the screen begging Boesman (Danny Glover) to tell her how they got to this barren place. "Where did they come from? Which path did they take?" she asks. Boesman just laughs, refusing to tell her, essentially refusing to give her back her life and her past. He simply wants to forget. Like his forgetfulness...
...dies before morning, leaving Lena alone with Boesman once again. At first, she refuses to continue traveling with her mate, who is afraid that he will be accused of murdering the derelict. She pleads with him to "learn to dance" and thus "leave his bruises on the earth" rather than on her body...
...Angered, Boesman violently rips apart the shack he has built, just as the white men tore apart the couple's shanty on the day before. Then he is quiet, all energy spent. After a tense moment, Lena reaches out her hand to Boesman, takes her share of their belongings on her back and walks with him off stage...