Black Butterflies (2011)
Black Butterflies (2011)
1080p BluRay Rip | MKV | 1920 x 816 | x264 @ 6688 Kbps | 01:39:25 | 5,87 Gb
Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Drama | 4 wins | Germany, Netherlands, South Africa
1080p BluRay Rip | MKV | 1920 x 816 | x264 @ 6688 Kbps | 01:39:25 | 5,87 Gb
Audio: English DTS 5.1 @ 1509 Kbps | Subs: None
Genre: Drama | 4 wins | Germany, Netherlands, South Africa
Ingrid Jonker lived an impossible contradiction, writing heart-rending poetry about being a woman of privilege living under apartheid rule, all the while dealing with pressure from the head of the censorship board, a man who also happened to be her father. “Black Butterflies” is the story of how Jonker, a woman with unending sexual cravings and a noted mental imbalance, managed to cope with this dichotomy. In the opening, the least poetic of a number of unconvincing metaphors writ large, Jonker is saved from drowning by handsome publisher Jack Cope, an older gentleman who immediately falls for the leggy writer. What he doesn’t know is that her self-abuse, due to living under the rule of her oppressive, emotionally-abusive father, has fractured her personality. She is not the creator she becomes when she puts pen to paper, but rather a little girl seeking stimulation (which she chases in a number of unavailable men) and hoping for the approval of her father (an impossibility).
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Carice van Houten, best known for her ferocious, controversial performance in Paul Verhoeven's Black Book, anchors this biopic about the “South African Sylvia Plath,” Ingrid Jonker, who died in 1965 after a short, turbulent life. Rather than delivering a hagiography, van Houten and director Paula van der Oest portray a troubled, often unlikable woman who happened to be a remarkable artist.
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Focusing on the last five years of Jonker's life, Black Butterflies examines her complicated relationships with her father–a stern South African politician (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) who happened to be the country's head censor–and her lover, novelist Jack Cole. Jonker became famous 30 years after her death, when Nelson Mandela read one of her poems during the first session of that country's first democratic parliament, and her best-known poem, “The Child (Who Was Shot Dead by Soldiers in Nyanga),” is based on a horrific incident she witnessed. But this is not another film about a saintly white figure fighting apartheid; instead it's a story about a woman both exalted and destroyed by her talent and her times, anchored by van Houten's exhilarating presence.
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Van Houten delivers a brave performance that is at its best when Jonker is at her worst (like when she slurps wine from the floor amidst shards of a broken bottle). Van Houten owns Black Butterflies, delivering a rare performance so richly detailed that it makes the film a must-see.Jeff Hart, Culture Blues
Black Butterflies (2011)
Black Butterflies (2011)
Black Butterflies (2011)
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