Synopsis
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.
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Cast
- Romane BohringerCatherine
- David CalderCharles
- Jennifer Jason LeighGina
- David BradleyHenry
- Brion JamesAshley
- Miles AndersonJack
- Bruce DavisonRay
- Janet McTeerLiz
- Peter KhubekeKanana
- Chris WalkerPaul
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
Janet McTeer displays Amazonian power while Jennifer Jason Leigh tears into her role as a high maintenance creature with a ferocity that leaves little room for her usual acting tics. - 75
New York Daily News
It's an excellent fusion of subject and style. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
It doesn't make the slightest effort to cater to conventional appetites. But the more you appreciate what they're trying to do, the more you like it. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Distinguished less by its elements of melodrama and psychodrama than by its intense acting and the vivid immediacy of Levring's powerful imagery. - 75
Portland Oregonian
To some, this will seem the height of aesthetic experimentation; to others, the most unendurable arty hogwash. - 75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Isn't very pretty despite its extraordinary look. In fact, the film is downright queasy and unsettling. - 70
Variety
Simultaneously gritty and cerebral. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
wWhat doesn't entirely succeed as convincing psychodrama makes one hell of an acting exercise (it's great fun to see great actors purposely mangle the Bard's immortal words), and Levring's cast -- McTeer in particular -- run with it.
