Press Release A Dry White Season (Blu-ray) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

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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 repression 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 Africa 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.

FILM INFO

• Euzhan Palcy
• United States
• 1989
• 107 minutes
• 1.85:1
• English
• Spine #953
  
  SPECIAL FEATURES
  DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
  
  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
  • New interview with director Euzhan Palcy by film critic Scott Foundas
  • Five Scenes, a new program featuring Palcy
  • Interview from 1989 with actor Donald Sutherland
  • Excerpt from a 1995 interview Palcy conducted with Nelson Mandela
  • Footage of Palcy receiving the highest distinction for foreign dignitaries at the 2017 South African National Orders awards
  • PLUS: An essay by filmmaker and scholar Jyoti Mistry
  New cover by Adam Maida
  
  December 11, 2018

 

[Ronald Epstein]

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[PMF]

An important film that's been long overdue for Blu.