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As much legal thriller as objective documentary, this account of a farmer's battle with Zimbabwe's regime serves as a powerful and emotional attack upon President Mugabe.
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The result is part legal thriller, part five-hankie melodrama. Jan 4, 2011 | Full Review…
The result is part legal thriller, part five-hankie melodrama.
Cliff Doerksen
In a continent where despotic rule is not uncommon, there is little argument that Mugabe is the most monstrous of rulers. Sep 2, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
In a continent where despotic rule is not uncommon, there is little argument that Mugabe is the most monstrous of rulers.
Roger Ebert
Bailey and Thompson managed to create a remarkably vivid portrait of a land and its people, while bringing us two unforgettable heroes in Campbell and Freeth. Aug 13, 2010 | Rating: 4/5
Bailey and Thompson managed to create a remarkably vivid portrait of a land and its people, while bringing us two unforgettable heroes in Campbell and Freeth.
Gary Goldstein
Compelling true-life story of the legal battle between a white farmer and the repressive Zimbabwean regime. Jul 23, 2010 | Full Review…
Compelling true-life story of the legal battle between a white farmer and the repressive Zimbabwean regime.
Frank Scheck
Many viewers will leave "Mugabe and the White African" thinking that they have seen few, if any, documentaries as wrenching, sad and infuriating, and those feelings will be justified. Jul 23, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Many viewers will leave "Mugabe and the White African" thinking that they have seen few, if any, documentaries as wrenching, sad and infuriating, and those feelings will be justified.
Mike Hale
The film clandestinely captures marauders in action while embedding itself in the imperiled home of aging farmer Michael Campbell. Jul 21, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The film clandestinely captures marauders in action while embedding itself in the imperiled home of aging farmer Michael Campbell.
Eric Hynes
The filmmakers leave massive and sometimes reactionary holes in a film that could easily have pled a more accommodating and sophisticated yet equally airtight case. Sep 6, 2010 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
The filmmakers leave massive and sometimes reactionary holes in a film that could easily have pled a more accommodating and sophisticated yet equally airtight case.
Nick Davis
The final hearing is the most extraordinary scene in the film. Aug 13, 2010 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
The final hearing is the most extraordinary scene in the film.
Andy Klein
Mugabe and the White African is cinema-as-journalism at its most aesthetically confident and humanely satisfying. Jul 27, 2010 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Mugabe and the White African is cinema-as-journalism at its most aesthetically confident and humanely satisfying.
Joseph Jon Lanthier
This portrait of a strident white farmer and his family in Zimbabwe is interesting for its close-up view of life there, but it skips too many details and ends up being morally ambiguous. Jul 26, 2010 | Full Review…
This portrait of a strident white farmer and his family in Zimbabwe is interesting for its close-up view of life there, but it skips too many details and ends up being morally ambiguous.
Maria Garcia
This extraordinary profile in courage starkly bears passionate and brave witness as two flinty farmers stand up for their rights in a good vs. evil fight. Jul 24, 2010 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
This extraordinary profile in courage starkly bears passionate and brave witness as two flinty farmers stand up for their rights in a good vs. evil fight.
Nora Lee Mandel
Not highlighting the colonized history of Zimbabwe is a huge error for the one-sided doc that at times depicts the Black Zimbabweans as emotionless and racist savages. That said, it's a fearless film but do your own research to be fully informed. Jul 20, 2010 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Not highlighting the colonized history of Zimbabwe is a huge error for the one-sided doc that at times depicts the Black Zimbabweans as emotionless and racist savages. That said, it's a fearless film but do your own research to be fully informed.
Clay Cane
"Mugabe and the White African" is a documentary about Mike Campbell's fight to retain his commercial farm in Zimbabwe(ne Rhodesia) from being forcibly taken over by President Robert Mugabe, like those of other white farmers. And what Campbell goes through under threats of intimidation could definitely be thought of as a travesty. So, it is a shame that it is all presented with the subtlety of a tractor being dropped on your head. Mugabe is evil, we get it.(The documentary opens with stating that it had to be filmed under strict secrecy. Later there is a scene where Campbell is having a showdown with a government minister's son and they are both filming each other.) All that had to be done to establish this would be to show the beaten opposition candidates. What "Mugabe and the White African" also required was a wider perspective and I think part of the problem does come from the white farmers who have an air of paternalism about them when claiming their indespensability to the local economy, implying that they can do a much better job than any black farmers. And according to a BBC report in 2000, the white population which is 1% of Zimbabwe controlled more than 70% of the arable land. That along with Zimbabwe's extremely racist past allows Mugabe to so successfully play the race card.
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