In My Country
2004 · Movie · R · 103 min · ★ 5.9 · 34% critics
While covering South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, an American reporter and a local poet-journalist grow close. As painful testimony and questions of forgiveness fill the air, their relationship unfolds against a country trying to face its past and imagine a more hopeful future.
Also known as Country of My Skull
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Details
- Years
- 2004
- Release date
- 2004-05-04
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Critic score
- 34/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 (52 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a thoughtful political drama mixed with romance and big questions about forgiveness, especially if titles like Trishna appeal to you; Not for you if you want a tighter, less melodramatic story.
Pros: moving theme of forgiveness; powerful South Africa setting; emotionally affecting moments | Cons: romance feels forced; uneven emotional tone; flat character writing
Themes
- journalism
- apartheid
- justice
Cast & crew
Samuel L. Jackson
as Langston Whitfield
Juliette Binoche
as Anna Malan
Brendan Gleeson
as De Jagar
Langley Kirkwood
as Boetie
Harriet Lenabe
as Albertina Sobandla
Warona Seane
as Translator
Robert Hobbs
as Van Deventer
- FR
Fiona Ramsay
as Felicia Rheinhardt
Charley Boorman
as Adam Hartley
Directed by John Boorman