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Beauty ( Afrikaans: Skoonheid) is a 2011 South African film co-written and directed by Oliver Hermanus. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Oct 5, 2012 · Beauty: Directed by Oliver Hermanus. With Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott, Albert Maritz. Portrait of a closeted gay husband/father living a life of quiet middle-aged desperation who becomes fixated on a friend's handsome collegiate son, leading to an incident.
- (2K)
- Drama
- Oliver Hermanus
- 2012-10-05
Sleeping Beauty: Directed by Julia Leigh. With Bridgette Barrett, Rachael Blake, Hannah Bella Bowden, Emily Browning. A haunting portrait of Lucy, a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires.
- Julia Leigh
- 2 min
Oliver Hermanus's 'Beauty' is a harsh film, the story of a repressed gay man in a loveless (straight) marriage prone to intermittent bouts of sexual violence. The way it is filmed is designed to echo the sense of loneliness in his life: lots of long, still shots that emphasise just how little is really going on, except for his brooding obsessions.
Provocative and haunting, this powerful sophomore effort from Oliver Hermanus is an intimately intense portrayal of man's inner demons. Francois (Deon Lotz) is a dutiful husband and father but finds himself going through the motions of a loveless marriage while harboring a life-long secret.
- Oliver Hermanus
- Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott
Beauty is a film directed by Oliver Hermanus with Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott, Albert Maritz. Year: 2011. Original title: Skoonheid (Beauty). Synopsis: Tells the story of Francois van Heerden, a mid-40s, white, Afrikaans-speaking family man living in Bloemfontein, who has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of ...
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François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.
