Skoonheid (2011)

98 min · Drama

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Directors

Oliver Hermanus

Cast

Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott, Roeline Daneel, Sue Diepeveen

The story

François van Heerden (Deon Lotz), is a white man in his late forties who lives in Bloemfontein in South Africa. Married with two grown daughters, he runs his own timber business and leads a seemingly comfortable life. He is also openly racist and homophobic, but at the same time he is sexually attracted to other men and regularly has secret sexual encounters with other white closeted men.

Catalogue themes and tags

Africa, Cape Town, Daughter, Familie, Gegenwart, Hochzeit, Identity, Jealousy, Krise, Male Nudity, Repressed Homosexual, Self-Discovery, Sex unter Männern, Sexuelles Verlangen, South Africa, vater, Älterer Mann begehrt jüngeren Mann

Genres

Drama

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