I'm told that there are some cultures which regard living through interesting times as a curse. What would happen to drama if times were uninteresting. Meet Molly Roth (Jodhi May). She's a normal teenager in a regimented society. It's 1963 in South Africa. Her parents are involved in the anti-apartheid cause. Her father flees the country. The police pick up her mother.
It is a partially valid criticism offered by another commentator that the film does not explain why the Roths oppose apartheid. Yet A World Apart entirely approaches the weighty issues from 13 year old Molly Roth's perspective. There are limitations in the view of a 13 year old born into an existing system. Yet the film graphically presents valid reasons. Before Molly must witness her mother's arrest, she watches from her friend's mother's car as no one rush up to aid the victim of a hit and run driver and as the police take no interest in pursuing the offender.
The film is superior in the mid 1960s costumes, hair styles, downtown areas in English speaking cities, and automobiles.
David Suchet renders a bravura performance as the vicious police detective Muller. He would play a similar part as the KGB Agent in The Falcon and The Snow Man.
It is a partially valid criticism offered by another commentator that the film does not explain why the Roths oppose apartheid. Yet A World Apart entirely approaches the weighty issues from 13 year old Molly Roth's perspective. There are limitations in the view of a 13 year old born into an existing system. Yet the film graphically presents valid reasons. Before Molly must witness her mother's arrest, she watches from her friend's mother's car as no one rush up to aid the victim of a hit and run driver and as the police take no interest in pursuing the offender.
The film is superior in the mid 1960s costumes, hair styles, downtown areas in English speaking cities, and automobiles.
David Suchet renders a bravura performance as the vicious police detective Muller. He would play a similar part as the KGB Agent in The Falcon and The Snow Man.