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Lettre d'amour zoulou (2004) is a English,Zulu movie. Ramadan Suleman has directed this movie. Pamela Nomvete,Mpumi Malatsi,Sophie Mgcina,Kurt Egelhof are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2004. Lettre d'amour zoulou (2004) is considered one of the best Drama movie in India and around the world.
In Johannesburg, two years after the first democratic elections, Thandeka, a black journalist, lives in fear of her country's past, to the point of no longer being able to work and going from failure to failure in her relations with Mangi, his deaf and mute daughter. Until one day an old woman, Me'Tau, shows up at the newspaper. Ten years earlier, Thandeka witnessed the murder of her daughter, Dinéo, by a secret police team. Me'Tau wants the journalist to help him find the culprits and make them confess where the body was buried, so that Dinéo's remains can be buried according to tradition. What the two women do not know is that the three assassins are prowling around them. What Me'Tau cannot know is that Thandeka has already paid for this story, for daring to confront the white apartheid machine.
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Lettre d'amour zoulou (2004) Reviews
brilliant, real, and different
The most honest movie about the legacy left by apartheid and the problems people have with the way things have turned out. The story is sadly a common one in our history, but the way the subject is handled is both new and accurate. I saw a screening in the company of a number of people who have lived through similar experiences, and the response was overwhelmingly positive, though obviously emotional. It's a much more real portrayal of the Truth and Reconcilition Commission and it's inherent problems than Red Dust, and much less influenced by foreign interests than the recent spate of movies about Africa. It's not an easy one to sit through, but well worth it.
disappointing
The scene is set in South Africa. After the fall of the Apartheid regime. Reconciliation is what the government wants and is probably the best solution if you want two people to live together. But do the people want to reconciliate ? How do you forgive a murderer ? How can you forgive racist crimes ? This is what the film deals with but fails according to me. How can that be ? Well, there are so many pointless scenes that I kept thinking : "so what ?" "Get a move on", and eventually, "what time is it ?". Such a waste and such a disappointment. Is there a film director out there who would like to give this interesting subject a try ?