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20 - Wednesday, September 27, 1989 - North Shore News

Brando has a field
day in his first film
role in eight years

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Unarmed students, some of
them children, are peacefully
demonstrating against their educa-
tion system when nervous police
open fire. The bloody Soweto
Uprising of 1976 has begun.

. in nearby Johannesburg, Ben do
Toit (Donald Sutherland), notices
his gardener, Gordon Ngubene_-
(Winston Ntshona), is distracted. It
seems his son has been arrested
for participating in the march. Cut
of concern, Ben agrees to look in-
to the matter, but before long he
finds the boy has died miysterious-
ly and has been buried in an un-
disclosed spot.

When the grief-stricken father
tries to discover what happened,
he is carted away in the night toa
similar fate:

That's when Ben decides to seek
justice. To his dismay, he finds, in
the words of his lawyer (Marlon
Brando), law and justice are like
distant cousins and in South
Africa, they are not even on
speaking terms.

Sutherland behaves like a de-
cent middle-aged man who slowly
comes to realize the foundation of
his white middle-class lifestyle is
built on the suppression of the
black majority. His profession,
however, is teaching history.

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White Season *% (MGM/UA) Rated M (at the Capital 6)
RED soil of Soweto is about to become red

der.

TIM
BELL

film review

No, | didn’t buy it either.

But Brando fans will enjoy his
brief bit as a cynical, down-but-
not-out barrister hired by
Sutherland to prosecute the
Special Branch of the poflice-for
murder, He has a field day in his
first role in eight years, sucking on
lozenges, using a cane to prop up
his rumpled bulk. When he’s on
screen the story comes to life and
it’s a shame the filmmakers didn't
focus on this vastly more interesti-
ng character.
sex, lies and videotape ***
(Cineplex Odeon) Rated R (at the
Granville, Oakridge, Station
Square, and Park & Tilford
Cinemas)

John (Peter Gallagher) has turn-

ed his material dreams into reality.

He’s got a law firm partnership,
squas dates, a nice home and <.
wife in therapy. Her husband’s

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distance has turned Ann (Andie
MacDowell) into one of those
people who become obsessed
with some global! concern like the
environment, to avoid more in-
timate problems like John’s touch.

It turns out her feelings aren’t
unjustified. He’s cheating on her
with an extroverted, sultry-voiced
bartender — her sister, Cynthia
(Laura San Giocomo).

Like a match to a fuse, an old
friend, Graham (James Spader) ar-
tives after a nine-year absence
with his camcorder and
videotaped interviews of women
discussing their sex lives.

It sounds perverse, but this i is ac-
tuaily witty, sensitive and
refreshing. with finely detailed per-
forrnances.

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