{"id":42,"date":"2011-01-14T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2015-08-31T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:36:54","slug":"beauty-thu-8-november-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2011\/01\/beauty-thu-8-november-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"BEAUTY &#8211; Thu 8 November, 8pm"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<h4>Beauty\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0Skoonheid<\/h4>\n<h4>Director: Oliver Hermanus\u00a0\u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0South Africa 2011 \u00a0 | \u00a0 98 mins \u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Cert:CLUB<\/h4>\n<h4>Starring: Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan and Michelle Scott<\/h4>\n<h4>Language: Afrikaans\u00a0<strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Beauty opens with a tracking shot through a wedding reception until the camera eventually stops to linger on a good-looking young man. The point of view is that of the father of the bride, Fran\u00e7ois (Deon Lotz). The young man is Christian, the son of Fran\u00e7ois\u2019 oldest friend.<\/p>\n<p>Typical of a sub-section of men who came of age during Apartheid, Fran\u00e7ois is internally angry and overtly racist and homophobic, holding on to his power as a white South African male through the success of his business. But he has a secret. He regularly attends orgies with a group of similarly closeted middle-aged guys.<\/p>\n<p>The voyeurism of the opening scene evolves as Fran\u00e7ois begins to stalk Christian, gazing in on his relatively carefree life, unshackled by South Africa\u2019s past. With a minimal script and long shots, director Hermanus enters Fran\u00e7ois\u2019 quiet desperation as it slowly turns to frustration, finally unshackling the rage at the heart of his alienation.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the film focuses on Fran\u00e7ois\u2019 unchanging expression, which doesn\u2019t give Lotz a lot to play with as an actor. Still he turns in a powerhouse performance, at once tense, heart-rending and repulsive in a devastating film that uses sexuality as a metaphor for South Africa\u2019s fractured dysfunction. &#8211; Brian Finnegan, Editor of GCN<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a title=\"Variety review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/review\/VE1117945255\/\">Read Variety review.<\/a><\/strong><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zJyV6DtLNEA?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text] Beauty\u00a0\u00a0| \u00a0Skoonheid Director: Oliver Hermanus\u00a0\u00a0 | \u00a0\u00a0South Africa 2011 \u00a0 | \u00a0 98 mins \u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0Cert:CLUB Starring: Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan and Michelle Scott Language: Afrikaans\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}