Black Butterflies Page #2

Synopsis: She searched for a home, she searched for love. Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of censorship. With men like Jack Cope and Andre Brink she found much love, but no home. In his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addresses her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Paula van der Oest
Production: Tribeca Films
  7 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
100 min
Website
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I see you as young, Jack.

"I repeat you, without beginning or end,

repeat your body.

The day has a thin shadow,

the night yellow crosses.

The landscape has no distinction

and the people a row of candles

While I repeat you

with my breasts, which imitate

the hollows of your hands."

Hello.

Hello, Ingrid.

I recognize you from the newspapers.

Uys Kriger.

And you must be Jack Cope,

the writer.

How do you do?

Oh, come in.

Come in.

Your father's on the phone.

My goodness,

but Simone has gotten big.

Even on sundays,

they bother him now.

He barely has time to write

his novels anymore.

Pa writes books, Lulu,

not novels.

I heard that.

Sorry to keep you all.

Uys Kriger, I'm an admirer

of your plays.

- You're quite prolific.

- Pleased to meet you, Dr. Jonker.

- Jack Cope.

- how do you do?

For some reason, I thought

you'd be younger.

Pa!

-Where's Anna?

- She has a migraine,

- But she sends her love.

- All right.

Come this way.

Please.

Maria, you're spoiling us.

When I heard you was coming,

I put in extra roast potatoes,

just the way you like them.

Ah, and this little peach,

she's looking more and more

like her grandmother.

That's all, Maria.

Thank you.

Mr. Cope, I just read your

story, the one called "Power."

- Hhm

- It's good, don't you think, Pa?

I thought it was quite manipulative,

a black man coming to the

rescue of a white boy.

Well, he comes to the rescue

of the bird, not just the boy.

The beauty in the story

is the allegory of the bird.

It represents freedom.

- What kind of freedom?

- Political freedom.

Fortunately for us,

blacks can't grasp

allegorical writing.

Shall we pray?

Lord, we thank you for what

we are about to receive.

In Jesus' name, amen.

- Amen.

- Smells good.

It's Rooibok.

Abraham shot it himself.

Dr. Jonker, you don't honestly believe

that black people are stupid, do you?

Intellectually inferior.

So by implication, you regard

the afrikaners as a superior race.

We were chosen by god

to lead this country.

Blood river proved that.

The nazis paid dearly for their

presumption of being a superior race.

If you think you can compare

the afrikaner to the nazis,

you're way off the mark,

Mr Cope.

Can we not just eat

with our differences?

Oh, Pieter called yesterday.

He wanted me to get a ticket for you

and Simone back to Johannesburg.

This is not the time, Pa.

I think you should go,

give it another try.

So, uh, Uys.

You working on something

interesting right now?

I'm doing an afrikaans translation

of king lear.

He had a terrible time with his

daughters too, that man.

Excuse me.

She is in her old room, boss.

I didn't mean to upset you.

You take pleasure in upsetting me.

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