Synopsis
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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Cast
- Sophie OkonedoSandra Laing
- Alice KrigeSannie Lang
- Sam NeillAbraham Laing
- Terri Ann EcksteinElsie Laing (aged 19)
- Bongani MasondoHenry Laing (aged 20)
- Dan RobbertseFactory Foreman
- Jeremy CrutchleyTV Reporter
- Tony KgorogePetrus Zwane
- Ella RamangwaneYoung Sandra
Recommendations
- 83
Entertainment Weekly
A tragic, enraging, and uplifting tale. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Inherently dramatic but needed a stronger director than Anthony Fabian, who overdoes understatement. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The fact that it's actually based on a true story adds an extra layer of poignancy, heightened further by another superb Sophie Okonedo performance. - 70
Variety
One of the more bizarre illustrations of racial injustice under apartheid is dramatized in Skin. - 70
Village Voice
This workmanlike, but enormously moving, movie makes the case that apartheid really does control her life, even her decision to rebel and get involved with a black man. - 60
New York Daily News
A little more variation in the script, though, might have yielded something truly great. - 50
The New York Times
Alas, Mr. Fabian, directing his first feature-length fiction film, uses a club whenever a feather would do. He also mishandles the actors, in particular Mr. Neill and Ms. Okonedo, both of whom have been incomparably better elsewhere. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Too many of the characters are either good or bad, and that loss of nuance is missed.
