Shepherds and Butchers2016
Shepherds and Butchers (2016)
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as Kathleen Marais
as Johan Webber
as Warrant Officer Rautenbach
as Leon Labuschagne
as Pierre De Villiers
Critic Reviews for Shepherds and Butchers
All Critics (9) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (4)
The performances are solid, including Coogan and especially Garion Dowds as the laconic and mournful defendant. Director Oliver Schmitz gives the film a measured pace, stoking tension as the courtroom drama unfolds.
The film mostly preaches to the converted, even if it reveals with historical gravity how capital punishment was another way that apartheid severely discriminated against South Africa's black population.
Oliver Schmitz, one of South Africa's essential directors, delivers a mix of emotional acuity and overkill with this death penalty drama.
Coogan, known as a comic actor, does solid dramatic work and Garion Dowds' accused is living in a palpable living hell. He knows no one can be a shepherd and a butcher and stay sane.
Oliver Schmitz's film... does not clarify what he wants to be. [Full review in Spanish]
There's a powerful movie to be made about the range of lives destroyed by the apartheid system -- both Black and white -- but Shepherds And Butchers isn't it.
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