OLIVER HERMANUS

Film Review: Sydney Film Festival 2012 Review: Beauty (Skoonheid) (CTC)

Beauty (Skoonheid) is the uncompromising sophomore film by director, Oliver Hermanus. The winner of the Queer Palm award at Cannes, it is a dark and conflicted drama set in Bloemfontein, in present-day South Africa. It’s less of a narrative film and more of an intense and intimate portrait of a wildly conflicted character.