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Director:
Writers:
J.M. Coetzee (novel)
Anna Maria Monticelli (screenplay)
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Release Date:
26 December 2008 (Norway) more
Genre:
Tagline:
What is a mad heart?
Plot:
After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics. | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
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(17 articles)
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Paula Arundell ... Dr Rasool

Scott Cooper ... Student

Eriq Ebouaney ... Petrus
Antoinette Engel ... Melanie Isaacs
Jessica Haines ... Lucy

John Malkovich ... David Lurie
Fiona Press
Monroe Reimers ... Board member
Charles Tertiens ... Ryan
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Additional Details

Runtime:
119 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: The notices in the lecture theater "Mid-term test" and "Casanova - your time is over" appear to have been written by the same person. Given the professionalism adopted by the university in its investigation of Mr Laurie it does not seem plausible to suggest that one person (say, a teacher's aide) wrote both notices. more

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Faithful to a Fault, 12 October 2008
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Disgrace is based on J.M. Coetzee's prize winning novel. Its central character is a an English professor in South Africa and his relationship with a number of women including one of his students, his daughter and a lover. It's about race, sex, revenge, redemption, moral ambiguities, what is right and what is wrong; above all it's about the complex nation that is South Africa.

Having read the novel, I can say that the film is very faithful to the book. Perhaps if the movie can be faulted it is because the film adaptation is too faithful. We can clearly hear the author's voice in the movie but not the director's. It just does not resonate as it should have done considering the source material. This by no means to say Disgrace is not a good film; in fact it is a very good film, finely acted (especially by Malkovich) and well directed. But it is not a great film and one feels that if Steve Jacobs, the director had perhaps not remained so faithful to the novel, the film would have risen from the level of a very competent and faithful adaptation to a great and perhaps even a classic film.

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