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  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “die swart gevaar” (the so-called black ...

Written By: Oliver Hermanus, André Carl van der Merwe

  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2021
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 44 m

Moffie

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
69
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “die swart gevaar” (the so-called black ...

Written By: Oliver Hermanus, André Carl van der Merwe

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
69
83% Positive
10 Reviews
0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
69
83% Positive
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0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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100
Apr 5, 2021
Set amid a group of freshly arrived white army conscripts who will be sent to fight communist guerrillas along the Angolan border in apartheid-era South Africa, it’s a riveting portrait of a particular time and place while also being a broader assault on the type of pressure-cooker masculinity where torture, cruelty, humiliation and racism are the coins of the realm.
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91
Apr 9, 2021
The way the editing (by Alain Dessauvage and George Hanmer) so gracefully unfolds from present to past suggests a kind of cinematic Proustian madeleine, conjuring how involuntary memories can be jolted again by encounters in the present.
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80
Sep 6, 2021
Kai Luke Brummer is a revelation in the central role, his introverted performance buoying the plot with nuance and charisma. We navigate through the horrors right alongside him, and we root for him, and in the end, despite a striking and sad realization, we gaze at the ocean and wonder if there’s hope for humanity yet.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 8, 2021
Hermanus, as a Black, queer South African, isn’t about to paint Nicholas’ predicament as on a par with apartheid’s true victims. But the emotional intelligence he infuses Moffie with — all the way through its inevitable march to the front line — feels personal nonetheless, and empathetically inquisitive about the kind of masculine indoctrination that fuels oppression through rituals of violence and the criminalizing of identity.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 6, 2021
At its worst, Hermanus’ forceful direction can land with this sort of thudding literality. But befitting its harrowing subject of young men hammered into rigid conformity, Moffie leaves a lasting mark all the same.
By Lawrence Garcia FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 7, 2021
Although Moffie is competently executed, its genre-straddling will leave you vaguely unsatisfied if you decide too quickly the kind of movie it should be.
By Steve Davis FULL REVIEW
25
Apr 6, 2021
Oliver Hermanus’s film is a rumination on the consequences of apartheid on those who benefit from it most.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Portobello Productions, Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa
Release Date Apr 9, 2021
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline From the Producer of the Oscar®-Winning IDA AND KOLYA
Website https://www.facebook.com/MoffieFilm/
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Awards

CinEuphoria Awards
• 5 Nominations
British Independent Film Awards
• 3 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 2 Nominations

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