Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... of that battle, shape Sandy's life and the rest of the film.It is easy to see that director Anthony Fabian has roots in the world (his first, 2001's "Township Opera," was also set in South Africa); it is there in the authentic look of the film and the precision with which he lays out the facts of Sandy's case. But those documentarian genes also haunt Fabian's first feature,...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... The journey of Roméo Dallaire and A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman) and Anthony Fabian (Skin) will be present at the screenings of their films and interact with the audiences, especially film students, Mr. Chattopadhyay said. Director Mani Ratnam will the chief guest.Five films based on the works and scripts of acclaimed Columbian writer Gabriel García Márquez...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Skin RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Drama. Directed by Anthony Fabian. With Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Ella Ramangwane and Tony Kgoroge. (PG-13. 107 minutes. At the Clay in San Francisco and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley.) It isn't just the inhumanity...
Seattle Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
If ever there were a true-life tale that laid bare the laws of South African apartheid in all their arbitrary lunacy, it's the one dramatized in Anthony Fabian's straight-ahead biopic of Sandra Laing, the visibly black daughter born in the 1950s to white Afrikaner parents as full of denial as the...
Entertainment Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... father. Skin is a tragic, enraging, and uplifting tale. The most feel-good aspect may be director Anthony Fabian's decision to begin his film with a written definition of apartheid: It's encouraging to think that so much time has passed, younger viewers might not actually know what it was. B+
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... isn't absurdist comedy, this was South Africa in the throes of apartheid, and the story told in Anthony Fabian's debut feature, Skin , turns out to have been all too real. The actual person, Sandra Laing, suffered through a kind of industrial-strength crisis of identity, with her parents determined to ensure that her privileges be protected via that all-important white designation,...
FilmGordon (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world. The film is directed by Anthony Fabian, and also stars Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Tony Kgoroge and Ella Ramangwane. What attracted you to this film? Sophie Okonedo: I just thought the story was so extraordinary. I had not heard about it or Sandra Laing before. When I got the script, I didn’t realize it was a real-life...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Skin Running time 107 minutes Written by Helen Crawley, Jessie Keyt, Helena Kriel Directed by Anthony Fabian Starring Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Sophie Okonedo Movies about the violent struggles in apartheid-era South Africa have proved to be audience repellents in recent years, but Skin could be different. This accomplished first feature from documentary filmmaker Anthony Fabian...
Movie Dearest (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... it is recognizable even in contemporary individuals and institutions. Director and co-producer Anthony Fabian makes a very impressive feature debut after directing several short films and operas. He wisely keeps the politics in Skin focused on the family rather than the larger social structures that re-enforced apartheid, an approach that makes the vile system of legalized racism's...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY FOCUS FEATURES' 9 CHECK OUT THE TRAILER: More MMP on HuffPost: Anthony Fabian on Skin Lars von Trier's Antichrist: A Conversation Mira Nair on Amelia Check out the Mighty Movie Podcast homepage. More on Death & Dying
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... struggles to define her place in a changing world. In theaters Oct. 30, the film is directed by Anthony Fabian, and also stars Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Tony Kgoroge and Ella Ramangwane. Black Voices caught up with Okonedo as she talks about the film and her upcoming role as Winnie Mandela. What attracted you to this film? Sophie Okonedo: I just thought the story was so extraordinary....
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... parents (Alice Krige and Sam Neill), is inherently dramatic but needed a stronger director than Anthony Fabian, who overdoes understatement. There are compensations, though. Sophie Okonedo, so good in "Hotel Rwanda," is fine here as well. As Sandra, she registers the disgust of racial indignity with visceral force – racism literally distends her. Grade: B (Rated PG-13 for thematic...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The corrosive legacy of South Africa's apartheid system is still being felt, 15 years after that country's first free elections and its move to majority rule. To get a sense of just how deep the lingering effects of institutionalized racism must run, take yourself to Anthony Fabian's Skin , a powerful and compelling drama based on a true story that still resonates. It opens Friday (10.30.09)...
