Snooty English actress meets rugged local in South Africa: blandness ensues
Both the blandest of romcoms and a film about film-making that displays zero feel for the way films are made. Ireland’s Katie McGrath adopts a cut-glass English accent as an actress jetting to South Africa to research a Boer war role, landing at the farm of a rugged local (the marvellously named Bok van Blerk). She’s snooty enough to be mistaken for royalty; he’s rough-edged, but strums the guitar. What could possibly happen? Getting from A to B necessitates countless insipidly scored montages, and while director Henk Pretorius fills the frame with veldt, early glimpses of Big Ben establish the wider lack of ambition. It’s tourist-trap cinema, for gullible eyes only.
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Both the blandest of romcoms and a film about film-making that displays zero feel for the way films are made. Ireland’s Katie McGrath adopts a cut-glass English accent as an actress jetting to South Africa to research a Boer war role, landing at the farm of a rugged local (the marvellously named Bok van Blerk). She’s snooty enough to be mistaken for royalty; he’s rough-edged, but strums the guitar. What could possibly happen? Getting from A to B necessitates countless insipidly scored montages, and while director Henk Pretorius fills the frame with veldt, early glimpses of Big Ben establish the wider lack of ambition. It’s tourist-trap cinema, for gullible eyes only.
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- 10/8/2015
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
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