Disgrace (2009)

A South African professor, forced to resign after taking advantage of a student, goes to stay with his daughter in the country, where things are slower but every bit as complicated.

I was confused by much of this film. It felt disjointed and yet it also managed to be somehow lyrical and undeniably powerful. I don't pretend to understand the ramifications of apartheid, but neither can I wrap my mind around the brutality that some people accept as everyday life. Well worth seeing, just for a look at a modern-day life that's both recognizable and completely unlike anything I know first-hand.

B+