Country of My Skull

2004

Action / Drama / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 23% · 81 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 3087 3.1K

journalism apartheid justice

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Plot summary

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

Director

John Boorman Photo
John Boorman

Top cast

Samuel L. Jackson Photo
Samuel L. Jackson as Langston Whitfield
Louw Venter Photo
Louw Venter as Alec
Brendan Gleeson Photo
Brendan Gleeson as Col. de Jager
Juliette Binoche Photo
Juliette Binoche as Anna Malan
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946.23 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
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1.9 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
R
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23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 5 / 10

Jackson and Binoche put it on the line

Jackson and Binoche put it on the line in John Boorman's In My Country. Boorman tries to invoke tears but isn't able to connect with the audience as much as the plot could have allowed. Dealing with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa In My Country has moments of brilliance but is never very strong in any faucet.
Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

This movie moved at a snails pace. Its

This movie moved at a snails pace. Its a serious and sad subject, but the way it was presented made it seem secondary to the budding, uninteresting romance.
Reviewed by R T 4 / 10

In My Country is a film about post-Apartheid

In My Country is a film about post-Apartheid South Africa. In 1995 Nelson Mandela established the Truth & Reconciliation Commission which allowed victims to testify to share their stories and perpetrators were allowed to confess their crimes in exchange for amnesty, on the condition that their accounts were truthful and proved to be politically motivated. In My Country was directed by John Boorman and stars Samuel L Jackson and Juliette Binoche and it recounts just some of the thousands of testimonies given during the commision. Unfotrunately the story gets bogged down with a few unessessary subplots such as a relationship between the two leads and an interview between Jackson's character and a ruthless white supremisict played well be Brendan Gleeson. This portion of the film is broken up and presented in scattered moments throughout the movie. I also felt that the wrong actors had been cast. Binoche seems to have been chosen for her ability to cry on que but her performance is unconvincing. Jackson is also two dimentional playing an American reporter and his performances teeters on kitchy. In My Country is a well intended film, telling important stories... but it fails in it's delivery.
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