Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Basic Training Proves Anything-But-Basic In The Powerful South African Drama 'Moffie'

Writer-director Oliver Hermanus created Moffie from an autobiographical novel by André Carl van der Merwe — but he gives the film an air of lived experience.

The effect of so much institutional hatred within the military of South Africa in the early '80s was to leave a generation traumatized, the film concludes.

(Image credit: Daniel Rutland Manners/IFC Films)

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