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ANTHONY FABIAN
In English and Zulu with English subtitles
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1-800-955-5566
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Skin
ANTHONY FABIAN
In English and Zulu with English subtitles
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The brutal absurdities of South African apartheid are vividly illustrated by this real-life tale of a girl whose skin is browner and hair curlier that that of her Afrikaner mom and dad. When Sandra Laing is a schoolgirl, her parents (Sam Neill and Alice Krige) successfully battle to have their daughter classified as white. Once she reaches adolescence, Sandra (Hotel Rwanda star Sophie Okonedo) realizes she has no future on her family's side of the color line. She runs off with a charming black man, which results in decades of estrangement from her parents—even as the country's racial-classification system crumbles. Director and co-writer Anthony Fabian's drama includes sequences of harsh government brutality against black South Africans. Its most chilling violence is psychological, such as the scene in which Sandra silently listens as her teacher indoctrinates her class on why whites and blacks can never live together.—Mark Jenkins