Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... fine British actress Sophie Okonedo ("Hotel Rwanda") as the teenager and adult, with a delightful Ella Ramangwane as the child, we see Sandy grapple with the "what are you?" question as much as those around her.The story begins after the Population Registration Act of 1950, which classified all South Africans by race and made any mingling between the races illegal. Her parents were...
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 Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
We meet the 10-year-old Sandra (Ella Ramangwane) just as she's off to boarding school. Neither she nor her adoring parents, Abraham and Saanie (Sam Neill and Alice Krige), have ever thought of her as anything but a treasured child who's as white as their older son, Leon (Hannes Brummer). Crashing into harsh reality during her brief, spiteful experience with teachers, administrators and...
FilmGordon (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... 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 story and I was hooked from there. How much research did you do? SO:...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... 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. I had not heard about it or Sandra Laing before. When I got the script,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... white. The government agreed and relabeled her “colored.” More About This Movie Jour De Fete FilmsElla Ramangwane as the young Sandra, with Alice Krige as her mother. Much of the film unfolds in a lengthy flashback that opens in the mid-1960s, when the young Sandra (played by Ella Ramangwane) is still living in her rural home with her parents and older brother, Leon...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... release. The film looks at the life of Sandra Laing (played by Sophie Okonedo as a teen and adult, Ella Ramangwane as a child), a black-looking child born to white parents in South Africa in the mid-1950s. Though her parents, Abraham and Sannie (Sam Neill, Alice Krige), are in denial as the film begins, it's apparent to anyone who sees Sandra that she is, to use the terms of apartheid,...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Skin is the astonishing true story of Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo ( Hotel Rwanda/The Secret Life of Bees ) & young Ella Ramangwane), a black child born in 1950s South Africa to white Afrikaners (Sam Neill ( The Tudors/Jurassic Park ) & Alice Krige ( Chariots of Fire/Star Trek: First Contact ), unaware of their black ancestry.
jojar | 10/23/2009
... Abraham (Sam Neill) and Sannie (Alice Krige) raise Sandra as a white girl.The young Sandra (Ella Ramangwane) is tormented in school by her classmates, the teachers, and the principal, because of her appearance. Consequently, the government classifies her as Coloured (the South African term for multiracial), and she's expelled from school.Undaunted, her father goes to the highest court
