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Skoonheid: Cannes 2011 Review

7:57 AM PDT 5/17/2011 by Jordan Mintzer

Oliver Hermanus’ film is a plodding South African drama that feels like a short stretched into a feature

CANNES -- A closeted homosexual has the hots for his brawny nephew in Skoonheid, a plodding South African drama that feels like a short film stretched into a feature, and fails to find its rhythm despite a decent lead turn from Deon Lotz. Basically a one-idea, one-plot-point movie that tries to provide grandeur via ineffective widescreen cinematography, writer-director Oliver Hermanus’ slim exploration of repressed desire and sexual angst will be of most interest to LGBT fests and distribs.

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