Beauty
Beauty is a 2011 South African film co-written and directed by Oliver Hermanus. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Plot
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.
Awards
Cast
More details
author | Didier Costet Oliver Hermanus |
---|---|
award | Queer Palm |
contentLocation | South Africa |
director | Oliver Hermanus |
editor | George Hanmer |
genre | drama |
keywords | bloemfontein cape town date family friend gay bar homophobia homophobic hotel room learn married men who have sex with men racism racist sexual encounter sexual encounters suffer television commercial wedding reception |
musicBy | Ben Ludik |
nomination | International Submission to the Academy Awards |
producer | Didier Costet |