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Disgrace

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Australia, South Africa · 2008
Rated R · 2h 0m
Director Steve Jacobs
Starring John Malkovich, Ériq Ebouaney, Natalie Becker, Antoinette Engel
Genre Drama

A professor of English in South Africa loses everything after beginning a relationship with his student. After ending the affair, he moves to the Eastern Cape with his daughter, but their harmony is quickly disrupted by violence and post-apartheid politics.

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Time Out by

A frustrating film full of overplayed men-as-dogs metaphors, it’s only watchable for Malkovich, who could probably read a social studies exam and still be commanding.

80

NPR by Bob Mondello

John Malkovich has played some odd ducks in his career, but for sheer unsavoriness, few can match the blandly monstrous Cape Town poetry professor he brings to off-putting life in Disgrace.

70

Variety by Eddie Cockrell

Anchored by another marvelously quirky yet deadly serious performance from John Malkovich, and likely to be relished by the fan base of J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel, this is a strong, perceptive, old-school arthouse picture.

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The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

After a compelling opening act and some shocking late-film developments, the film feels disengaged from the action at hand and the issues raised.

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