Metacritic Film

Long Night's Journey Into Day

Starring Mary Burton, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Jann Turner, Desmond Tutu, Tony Weaver, and Glenda Wildschut

MPAA RATING: Not rated

Seventh Art Releasing
Documentary
90 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters March 9, 2001

This documentary examines South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Committee and its efforts to bring together parties on both sides of human rights violations that occurred under Apartheid.

DIRECTED BY
Deborah Hoffmann
Frances Reid

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

85 / 100

Critic Reviews

100 Wall Street Journal
A magnificent documentary.
80 Los Angeles Times
Not merely affecting and illuminating; it concludes on a note of hope.
80 LA Weekly
Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffman's heart-stopping, Oscar-nominated documentary about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is narrow in focus, but broad in its reach for insight into the power of public drama.
70 Variety
Demonstrates the impossibility of separating the private from the public dimensions of politics, and the pain involved in trying to account for behavior that cannot withstand rational examination.

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