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Watch: Skoonheid 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – Tells the story of Francois van Heerden, a mid-40s, white, Afrikaans-speaking family man living in Bloemfontein, who has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life..
Plot: François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.
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Ratings:

	6.2/10 Votes: 1,833
	84% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 29 Popularity: 5.688 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Sick Society
Without imposing too much of a Marxist interpretation on this film it would be good to ponder on how much our actions are partly formed by the society in which we live. I was shocked to read one reviewer say Francois, the lead character is old, fat and ugly. Is this the sort of judgement we impose upon others created by the endless images of ‘ beautiful people ‘ around us ? Francois lives in a world that is repressed, ugly in its moral hypocrisy and full of racism and homophobia. He is trapped in this world, like most of us if we are honest with ourselves and acknowledge that we are trapped in the society we are born in. Some fight to get out, others stay. Many societies are ugly towards homosexuality and he lives in one of them, miserable in a loveless marriage and secretly yearning for the beauty of a fulfilled life he can no longer achieve. The last scene in the film was achingly accurate about this. After many years I have at last caught up with this film. Like other reviewers I saw how terrible the rape is, but I tried to understand the long fierce years of frustration and society’s impositions that made it happen. Fritz Lang in ‘ Scarlet Street ‘ showed a similar unpunished crime. and Francois will have many long years ahead to live with this guilt. The monster in this film is the societies that breed the climate for such an action – the homosexual persecution and torture in Russia is just one example, and even within America and the UK everything is not ‘ beautiful ‘ and discrimination still exists. How many clothes shops for example where two beautiful people advertise the clothes are two men, or two women, clearly in love and together ? I have seen none. Beauty is for the so-called normal. To conclude I thought the film was expertly made and the time it took to relate the story was I believe for us to look closely at the world that surrounded this inwardly desperate man who has a lot of love within, but explodes and commits an atrocious act because he does not have any possibility in his society to express it. The horrifying sexual orgy of homosexual hating men at the beginning of the film was as equally painful to watch, caught like flies in the web of the world that society has made for them. One of the most thought provoking films I have seen recently, equal to the best of the great director Fritz Lang.

Death in Venice — redone in Capetown
I have been looking for a different gay movie where the main character doesn’t kill himself or have an over sexual mother who kills herself etc… Or the depressing coming of a age gay movies that have been done a zillion times with all the disappointments and unrequited love to straights endless humiliations the straight girl who loves him who he has to tell the truth to on and on… This movie is it!

I have been to South Africa, Bloemfontein no less, and the scene where the Boer farmers engage in a little secret homosexual love party totally threw me.

A middle aged married man becomes infatuated with a pretty (Title) younger man eventually culminating in a hotel room where he beats him up to have his way instead of the stereotype where the reverse happens. GREAT.

This movie is unique and different…until the very end I was not sure what would happen as gay movies always have to end with some bad ending for the gay protagonist–not this one.

It reminded me a little of a Rod Steiger movie The Sargeant (1968) where Steiger falls in love with a junior army soldier–except Steiger has to commit suicide after coming on to the young recruit.

Times have changed for the better–

For the reviewer baffled by the swimming pool with debris and clothes in it…water is symbolic through out the movie…the rain after the gay bar pure water from the sky..the poetry reading…it symbolizes the id/sexual life of the hero—yucky icky water on the home front lots of hidden things lurking there.

HIGHLY RECOMMEND

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Drama
Director Oliver Hermanus
Writer Didier Costet, Oliver Hermanus
Actors Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott
Country South Africa, France, Germany
Awards 5 wins & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Red One Camera
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process anamorphic, C Series, E Series lenses
Printed Film Format N/A