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Skin is a British-South African 2008 biographical film about Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents, who was classified as "Coloured" during the apartheid era, presumably due to a genetic case of atavism.[3] Directed by Anthony Fabian and Based on the book When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone, Skin premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2009.[4]

Skin
Theatrical poster
Directed byAnthony Fabian
Written byHelen Crawley
Anthony Fabian
Jessie Keyt
Helena Kriel
Produced byAnthony Fabian
Genevieve Hofmeyr
Margaret Matheson
StarringSophie Okonedo
Sam Neill
Alice Krige
CinematographyDewald Aukema
Jonathan Partridge
Edited bySt. John O'Rorke
Music byHelene Muddiman
Distributed byBBC Films (UK)
Release dates
  • 7 September 2008 (2008-09-07) (TIFF)
  • 24 July 2008 (2008-07-24) (United Kingdom)
[1][2]
Running time
107 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
South Africa
LanguageEnglish

The film was released to a limited number of US cinemas on 30 October 2009. It started showing in South Africa on 22 January 2010, and in Australia and New Zealand 25 July 2010.


Synopsis


The year is 1965, and 10-year-old Sandra and her parents, Abraham and Sannie, are white Afrikaners. Her parents are shopkeepers in a remote area of the Eastern Transvaal and, despite Sandra's mixed-race appearance, have lovingly brought her up as their white little girl. Sandra is sent to a boarding school in the neighbouring town of Piet Retief, where her (white) brother Leon is also studying, but parents of other students and teachers complain that she does not belong in this school.

She is examined by State officials, reclassified as coloured, and expelled from the school. Sandra's parents are shocked, but Abraham fights through the courts to have the classification reversed. The story becomes an international scandal and media pressure forces the law to change so that Sandra is classified as officially white again.

By the time she is 17, Sandra realizes she is never going to be accepted by the white community. She falls in love with Petrus, a young black man and the local vegetable seller, and begins an illicit love affair. Abraham threatens to shoot Petrus and disown Sandra. Sannie is torn between her husband's rage and her daughter's predicament. Sandra elopes with Petrus to Swaziland. Abraham alerts the police and has them arrested and put in prison for the illegal border crossing. Sandra is released by the local magistrate to return home with her parents, but she decides to return to Petrus, as she is pregnant with his child. Her father disowns her.

Now Sandra must live her life as a coloured woman in South Africa for the first time, restricted to housing with no running water and no sanitation, and struggling on little income. Although she feels more at home in this community, she desperately misses her parents and yearns for a reunion. She and her mother make attempts to communicate but are consistently thwarted by Sandra's father. Late in his life, when he is too sick to act on his own, he reconsiders and asks his wife to take him to visit Sandra. Sandra's mother, angry that his new-found guilt had surfaced only after he had for 10 years stubbornly ignored her own emotional torment and longing for a reunion, refuses his request and says that neither of them deserves Sandra's forgiveness.

Eventually, Sandra's marriage to Petrus deteriorates and he becomes physically abusive. She leaves him, taking their two children with her. She looks for her parents but finds they had since moved from her childhood home. Not knowing where they are, she continues with her life, raising her children by herself.

When the country's apartheid government comes to an end, there is renewed interest in her story by the media. Sandra's mother sees Sandra interviewed on television and writes to her to tell her of her father's death two years earlier. The letter provides no return address nor any other clue as to Sannie's whereabouts, but receiving it prompts Sandra to renew her search. Eventually, she finds her mother living in a nursing home and the two are happily reunited.

An epilogue tells that Sandra's mother died in 2001, and her two brothers continue to refuse to see her or her family.


Cast



Reception


Roger Ebert gave the film four stars.[5] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film three out of five stars.[6]


Awards


Skin has won 19 international festival awards, including:


Nominations



References


  1. "Skin and Jesus and the Giant to screen at Toronto".
  2. "Movie shows apartheid's cruelty and contradictions". Reuters. 12 September 2008.
  3. "Interview with Sandra Laing- Real Life Subject of Skin".
  4. Dargis, Manohla (29 October 2009). "White to Colored and Back Again in Apartheid's Maze". The New York Times.
  5. "Skin movie review & film summary (2009) | Roger Ebert".
  6. "Film review: Skin". TheGuardian.com. 23 July 2009.



На других языках

- [en] Skin (2008 film)

[ru] Кожа (фильм, 2009)

«Ко́жа» (англ. Skin) — биографический фильм режиссёра Энтони Фабиана о Сандре Лэйнг, южноафриканской женщине, родившейся в эпоху апартеида у белых родителей, но отнесённой к «цветным». Фильм «Кожа» был впервые представлен 7 сентября 2008 года на кинофестивале в Торонто. Вышел в прокат в Великобритании 24 июля 2009.


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