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Review: 'Skin' splits a family by race

Cape Town : South Africa | about 1 month ago  
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Abraham, an avowed nationalist played with rigid force by Sam Neill, and Alice Krige, as a mother torn...Then, due to recessive black genes it would take scientific advancements to eventually figure out, came Sandra, with all the characteristics of a black child, and, later, younger brother...
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  • News Source: Seattle Times | 26 days ago
    Movie review 'Skin,' with Sophie Okonedo, Ella Ramangwane, Sam Neill, Alice Krige. Directed by Anthony Fabian, from a screenplay by Helen Crawley, Jessie Keyt and Helena Kriel...Rated PG-13 for thematic material, some violence and sexuality...Born in...
  • News Source: Contra Costa Times | 27 days ago
    Abraham, an avowed nationalist played with rigid force by Sam Neill, and Alice Krige, as a mother torn...Then, due to recessive black genes it would take scientific advancements to eventually figure out, came Sandra, with all the characteristics of a...
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  • Blog Source: www.theepochtimes.com
    Directed by Anthony Fabian and starring Sam Neil and Sophie Okonedo, it offers a completely different view of apartheid. The vantage point of both whites and blacks are shown, regarding this awkward chapter of South Africa's history. ...
  • Blog Source: www.movieline.com
    They say that in the specific you find the universal, and Sophie Okonedo can relate. The actress was raised in such a very unique household, having been born in London's East End to a Nigerian and an Ashkenazi Jew, yet...
  • Blog Source: trendyafrica.com
    A powerful and poignant drama based on real events, “Skin” is the true story of a black child born in the 50s to white parents in apartheid South.
  • Blog Source: bayflicks.net
    Sandra Laing (an actual, living person, played here by Sophie Okonedo) was born to white parents in South Africa in 1955, but by all appearances was what the apartheid system called colored (mixed-race). Her parents, staunch supporters ...
  • Blog Source: www.ladybrillemag.com
    Until 1994, South Africa's system of Apartheid forbade people of different “races” to use the same stores, to attend the same schools or to reside under.
  • Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
    Set in South Africa, in the throes of apartheid, the absurdist story told in Anthony Fabian's debut feature, Skin, turns out to have been all too real.
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