South Africa is the star of Alain Choquart’s handsome post-apartheid melodrama “Ladygrey,” even as the country’s role in the pic’s snaking, distracted narrative never quite comes into focus. Adapted (and relocated) from a pair of novels by French author Hubert Mingarelli, the pic is a little too obviously the product of separate sources: Revolving around the variously unhappy inhabitants of a mountainside village with a violent historical legacy, its individually affecting story strands resist fusing into a more resonant whole. In his debut feature, former cinematographer Choquart unsurprisingly makes rich use of the Drakensberg landscape; his directorial touch is less assured, however, with the film’s human elements, including headliners Peter Sarsgaard, Emily Mortimer and Jeremie Renier. Despite their presence, travel prospects for this Miami fest premiere remain misty beyond a French release in May.
Choquart, who shot the 2000 screen adaptation of Athol Fugard’s Cape Flats-set “Boesman and Lena,...
Choquart, who shot the 2000 screen adaptation of Athol Fugard’s Cape Flats-set “Boesman and Lena,...
- 3/13/2015
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety - Film News
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