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Beauty (Afrikaans: Skoonheid) is a 2011 South African film co-written and directed by Oliver Hermanus. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival . [1] [2] The film was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards , [3] [4] but it did not make the final ...
- Ben Ludik
- Oliver Hermanus
- Didier Costet
- Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan
Oct 5, 2012 · Beauty: Directed by Oliver Hermanus. With Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott, Albert Maritz. Portrait of a closeted gay husband/father living a life of quiet middle-aged desperation who becomes fixated on a friend's handsome collegiate son, leading to an incident.
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- Drama
- Oliver Hermanus
- 2012-10-05
What makes the film relevant today? It deals with the possibly explosive consequences of suppressing who you really are - whether you are gay, straight or simply stuck in a job you hate. It could...
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- Oliver Hermanus
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Synopsis. François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.
- 2011
- François; Christian; Elena van Heerden
- Oliver Hermanus
23 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. One man's experience of the closet and sexual obsession. Laakbaar 11 May 2012. Warning: Spoilers. What an astonishing, sophisticated, insightful movie this is.
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Directed by. Oliver Hermanus. South Africa, France, 2011. Drama, LGBTQ+. 105. Synopsis. François lives a skillfully controlled, well managed life, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Father of two daughters and a devoted husband, he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean and ordered existence. Synopsis.