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- The film received mostly positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 82% of 72 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 7.4 out of 10. Brando, in his first film since 1980, was particularly praised for his small but key role as human rights attorney Ian McKenzie.
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"A Dry White Season" is a powerfully serious movie, but the director, Euzhan Palcy, provides a break in the middle, almost as Shakespeare used to bring on pantomime before returning to the deaths of kings.
It's not easy to recommend a movie that shows the cruel, cold-blooded murder of young children and the brutal torture of innocent men. But a recommendation is exactly what A Dry White...
Released in the year before the process of ending apartheid began, A DRY WHITE SEASON offers a straightforward portrayal of life, with the Afrikaaners depicted as almost uniformly racist and the black Africans as their largely innocent victims.
A striking triumph for director Euzhan Palcy, A Dry White Season offers a condemnation of real-world injustice in the shape of a gripping legal thriller. Read Critics Reviews
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Bottom Line: A Dry White Season is a terrific film. It may not be a feel good picture but it is empowering in the way that it dramatizes resistance to injustice. Episode: #237 (May 3, 2009)
A Dry White Season is a 1989 American drama film directed by Euzhan Palcy and starring Donald Sutherland, Jürgen Prochnow, Marlon Brando, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae and Susan Sarandon. It was written by Colin Welland and Palcy, based upon André Brink 's novel A Dry White Season .
Here's a good, honorable, but not great anti-apartheid movie, the first directed by a black woman. A Dry White Season unravels when it opts for a wrap-up-the-loose-ends thriller finish, but there's no faulting the level of acting or the level of commitment in it.
