#953: PALCY, Euzhan: A Dry White Season (1989)
PALCY, Euzhan (United States)
A Dry White Season [1989]
Spine #953
Blu-ray
The Film
The Extras
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.
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
Euzhan Palcy was 31 when she directed A Dry White Season.
Screenplay by Colin Welland and Palcy.
Based on the novel by André Brink.
The Film
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.
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