#953: PALCY, Euzhan: A Dry White Season (1989)
PALCY, Euzhan (United States)
A Dry White Season [1989]
Spine #953
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Ten page wraparound featuring an essay by filmmaker and scholar Jyoti Mistry.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With director Palcy by film critic Scott Foundas.
Five Scenes
A program featuring Palcy.
Interview 2
From 1989 with actor Sutherland.
Excerpt
From a l985 interview with Palcy conducted with Nelson Mandela.
Footage
Of Palcy receiving the highest distinction for foreign dignitaries at the 2017 South African National Orders award.
Extras Rating (0-40):
A Dry White Season [1989]
Spine #953
Blu-ray
With this bracing drama, made at the climax of the anti-apartheid movement, director Euzhan Palcy issued a devastating indictment of South Africa's racist government — and made history in the process, becoming the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film. White schoolteacher Ben Du Toit (Donald Sutherland) lives in Johannesburg and remains blissfully incurious about the lives of his black countrymen until a wave of brutal treatment comes crashing down on his gardener (Winston Ntshona), bringing Du Toit face-to-face with harsh political realities. Based on a celebrated novel by André Brink and rooted in the first-hand research the Martinican Palcy did in South Afirca into the way black people lived under apartheid, A Dry White Season is unflinching in its depiction of violence and its chronicling of injustice, making for a galvanizing tribute to those willing to sacrifice everything to fight oppression.
106 minutes
Color
Stereo
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Stereo
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2018
Director/Writers
Based on the novel by André Brink.
Screenplay by Colin Welland and Euzhan Palcy.
Palcy was 31 when she directed A Dry White Season.
The Film
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Ten page wraparound featuring an essay by filmmaker and scholar Jyoti Mistry.
Commentary
None.
Interview 1
With director Palcy by film critic Scott Foundas.
Five Scenes
A program featuring Palcy.
Interview 2
From 1989 with actor Sutherland.
Excerpt
From a l985 interview with Palcy conducted with Nelson Mandela.
Footage
Of Palcy receiving the highest distinction for foreign dignitaries at the 2017 South African National Orders award.
Extras Rating (0-40):
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