Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Country: GB/US/SA/IT
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 122m
Director: Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, Cara Seymour, Jean Reno
Synopsis:
1994: as Hutu militia slay Tutsis indiscriminately, the under-manager of the five-star hotel in Kigali, abandoned by his white employees, and increasingly by thinly stretched UN troops, gives asylum to over a thousand Tutsi and Hutu refugees. Through a combination of bribery, pleading and threats he secures the survival of first his family, then neighbours and finally all who approach the hotel for refuge.
Review:
Gripping drama based on a true story. It makes one or two concessions in the cause of gaining a wide audience, but since this was no doubt the price of getting made at all so much the better. Besides the events depicted are so chilling in their reality that a few starry faces and a retreat from full-blooded depiction are a relief. Meanwhile the lead delivers a superbly judged performance, balanced between frightened native and dignified black man, and is ably supported by a convincingly sweaty set of co-stars.
Country: GB/US/SA/IT
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 122m
Director: Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, Cara Seymour, Jean Reno
Synopsis:
1994: as Hutu militia slay Tutsis indiscriminately, the under-manager of the five-star hotel in Kigali, abandoned by his white employees, and increasingly by thinly stretched UN troops, gives asylum to over a thousand Tutsi and Hutu refugees. Through a combination of bribery, pleading and threats he secures the survival of first his family, then neighbours and finally all who approach the hotel for refuge.
Review:
Gripping drama based on a true story. It makes one or two concessions in the cause of gaining a wide audience, but since this was no doubt the price of getting made at all so much the better. Besides the events depicted are so chilling in their reality that a few starry faces and a retreat from full-blooded depiction are a relief. Meanwhile the lead delivers a superbly judged performance, balanced between frightened native and dignified black man, and is ably supported by a convincingly sweaty set of co-stars.
Country: GB/US/SA/IT
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 122m
Director: Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte, Cara Seymour, Jean Reno
Synopsis:
1994: as Hutu militia slay Tutsis indiscriminately, the under-manager of the five-star hotel in Kigali, abandoned by his white employees, and increasingly by thinly stretched UN troops, gives asylum to over a thousand Tutsi and Hutu refugees. Through a combination of bribery, pleading and threats he secures the survival of first his family, then neighbours and finally all who approach the hotel for refuge.
Review:
Gripping drama based on a true story. It makes one or two concessions in the cause of gaining a wide audience, but since this was no doubt the price of getting made at all so much the better. Besides the events depicted are so chilling in their reality that a few starry faces and a retreat from full-blooded depiction are a relief. Meanwhile the lead delivers a superbly judged performance, balanced between frightened native and dignified black man, and is ably supported by a convincingly sweaty set of co-stars.