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| Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date (Streaming): August 7, 2020 |
Starring:
Bill Milner, David Dencik, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, Gursed Dalkhsuren, Harry Melling, Johnny Depp, Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson, Sam Reid
Summary:
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Sep 12, 2019
Sep 12, 2019
Coetzee’s novel, with its measured, interiorized voice and sparse, incrementally devastating narrative, was never an obvious fit for film treatment. After a stiffly mannered, overwritten first act, however, “Waiting for the Barbarians” gradually gains in poetry and power, while Mark Rylance’s lead performance, as a liberal-minded colonial official undermined and overwhelmed by his tyrannical superiors, gives proceedings a quiet but firm moral core.
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Sep 12, 2019
The critique of those in power and their need to put down others — preferably foreign or different-looking people — in order to stay on top is as relevant in 2019 as it was in 1980, when the novel was first published. But like its noncommittal production design, which combines various North African, Middle Eastern and Asian influences for the locals and locales, the critique itself remains finally quite dull and dispersed because it's so broad and unspecific.
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The Guardian
Sep 12, 2019
Sep 12, 2019
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