An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Acting
Jackson and Binoche somehow sell this thin romance.
Direction
Boorman lets actual TRC testimony breathe—uncomfortably real.
Director
John Boorman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Antjie Krog's memoir 'Country of My Skull,' though Krog called the film 'a terrible distortion' of her work and identity.
The TRC's actual 1996-1998 hearings were globally televised; this was Hollywood's first major attempt to dramatize them, arriving six years late and through American eyes.
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