Black Butterflies (2011)

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Directed by

Paula van der Oest

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Carice van Houten
Ingrid Jonker

Liam Cunningham
Jack Cope

Rutger Hauer
Abraham Jonker

Graham Clarke
Uys Krige

Candice D'Arcy
Anna Jonker

Grant Swanby
Jan Rabie

Jennifer Steyn
Lucille Jonker

Diane Wilson
Ouma

Written by

Greg Latter

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A good movie

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Even if her career never really took off internationally, Carice van Houten is still pretty much ruling the Dutch movie industry. Indeed, with this movie, it is already her 4th movie winning the Golden Calf of the best Dutch movie of the year (the other movies being ‘Alles is liefde’, ‘Zwartboek’ en ‘Minoes’) and she won also 4 Calves for the best Actress during her career. Anyway, ho... read more

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This passionate biopic profiles South African poet Ingrid Jonker, whose exuberant nature is destroyed by her repeated betrayals of her supportive lover and her complex relationship with her disapproving father, the minister of censorship.

Release date: 31 March 2011

Tags: Drama (1), Abortion (1), Poetry (1), Racism (1), South Africa (1), Apartheid (1), Writers (1), Mental Illness (1), Censorship (1), 2011 (1), Fathers & Daughters (1)

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"Ingrid Jonker and Jack Cope (Carice van Houten and Liam Cunningham) "I repeat you Without beginning or end, I repeat your body. The day has a thin shadow and the night yellow crosses the landscape without regard and the people a row candles while I repeat you with my breasts that reforms the hollows of your hands." "

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