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Feature: Disgrace
[Thu 28/05/2009 05:56:08]
Disgrace may be a local film but its aimed at an international audience. Brendan Swift takes a closer look at the $10 million Australian feature of JM Coetzee’s classic South African tale.
Disgrace is a complex novel with few consolations. And its big screen adaption, set in a post-apartheid South Africa, remains faithful to the core. Its story of compromised choices made amid against a backdrop of violence, race and power has found its home in an Australian film, shot in South Africa with an international cast.
It has taken almost $10 million – about half from the Australian government – to bring the Booker prize winning novel to life.
“These films are not generally considered to be Multiplex numbers,” director and co-producer Steve Jacobs says. “But the book was so famous, that in a way it allowed controversial elements that would not normally be in a film with this type of production level to be named.”
Renowned actor John Malkovich plays twice-divorced English professor David Lurie, who is dismissed from his university after seducing a student. He takes refuge on an Eastern Cape farm owned by daughter Lucy (played by South African newcomer Jessica Haines) where they suffer a vicious gang attack. Local black farm worker Petrus (played by French actor
Eriq Ebouaney) becomes embroiled in the drama when one of his relatives is implicated in the attack.
The finely-tuned performances played out against a vast African landscape keep the story from becoming overbearing despite the violence and tension that threatens to burst through the surface.
“The book has a certain objectivity that allows the reader to make the judgement … I wanted to do that in the film if it was possible,” Jacobs, whose last major feature was the AFI Award-winning La Spagnola in 2001, says.
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