Catch a Fire (2006)
Country: GB/US/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu
Synopsis:
At the beginning of the 80s an economic migrant from Mozambique works at the biggest power plant in South Africa, target of terrorist attacks by the ANC. An indiscretion leads to suspicion and interrogation by the counter-terrorist unit led by Colonel Nic Vos, whose heavy-handed methods ultimately lead to his radicalization and conversion to the ANC cause.
Review:
Like Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence, this works better as a genre piece than as a political or social calling card: the characters are too sketched, despite the best efforts of his able cast, their roles too schematized. The best thing is the relationship between Vos and Chamusso, but this is limited and under-explored, perhaps through the need or desire to be faithful to the facts of the case. One is left with some powerfully realized sequences, but overall it is at times more reminiscent of Gold than of Tsotsi.
Country: GB/US/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu
Synopsis:
At the beginning of the 80s an economic migrant from Mozambique works at the biggest power plant in South Africa, target of terrorist attacks by the ANC. An indiscretion leads to suspicion and interrogation by the counter-terrorist unit led by Colonel Nic Vos, whose heavy-handed methods ultimately lead to his radicalization and conversion to the ANC cause.
Review:
Like Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence, this works better as a genre piece than as a political or social calling card: the characters are too sketched, despite the best efforts of his able cast, their roles too schematized. The best thing is the relationship between Vos and Chamusso, but this is limited and under-explored, perhaps through the need or desire to be faithful to the facts of the case. One is left with some powerfully realized sequences, but overall it is at times more reminiscent of Gold than of Tsotsi.
Country: GB/US/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Phillip Noyce
Cast: Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna, Mncedisi Shabangu
Synopsis:
At the beginning of the 80s an economic migrant from Mozambique works at the biggest power plant in South Africa, target of terrorist attacks by the ANC. An indiscretion leads to suspicion and interrogation by the counter-terrorist unit led by Colonel Nic Vos, whose heavy-handed methods ultimately lead to his radicalization and conversion to the ANC cause.
Review:
Like Noyce's Rabbit Proof Fence, this works better as a genre piece than as a political or social calling card: the characters are too sketched, despite the best efforts of his able cast, their roles too schematized. The best thing is the relationship between Vos and Chamusso, but this is limited and under-explored, perhaps through the need or desire to be faithful to the facts of the case. One is left with some powerfully realized sequences, but overall it is at times more reminiscent of Gold than of Tsotsi.