Synopsis: This film is based on the true story set in South Africa during the Apartheid system of a Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo), who was born of dark skin to two Afrikaaners of white Eropean descent Abraham (Sam Neill) and Sannie (Alice Krige) Laing. Sandra is a genetic throwback because unknown to her parents, and like many Afrikaaners, there was mixed blood in their heritage between the Euopeans who settled in South Africa and the indigenous Africans. The story begins with Sophie getting expelled from an all-white school because of her differences in appearance. She is reclassified as dark...
Her father (who is himself a bigot) fights to have her reclassified as white. She eventually is but against her family wishes she causes an unbreakable divide when she decides to marry a black man and have herself reclassified yet again as black. This is the feature film directorial debut of writer/director Anthony Fabian who was also present at my screening for an audience Q&A. The screenplay is from Helen Crawley but there was a book written recently by author Judith Stone called When She Was White that goes more into the complete story of Sophie's life. This film covers Sophie from around age 10 through her first marriage. Both Fabian's film and Stone's book had the cooperation of Sophie herself in their making. An excellent cast with three veterans in the principal roles with Neill, Krige, and the young but very busy Okonedo who was an Oscar nominee for Hotel Rwanda.
Skin is a 2009 biographical film about Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents but was classified as coloured during the apartheid era. Anthony Fabian directs this biopic, and Sophie Okonedo was chosen to portray Laing in the movie. Skin premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2008. The film was released to a limited number of US theaters on October, 30, 2009.
Director: Anthony Fabian | Writers: Helen Crawley, Anthony Fabian, Jessie Keyt, Helena Kriel | Editor: St. John O'Rorke | Cinematographers: Dewald Aukema, Jonathan Partridge | Cast: Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige, Tony Kgoroge, Ella Ramangwane | Genre: Drama, Biography, Mystery, Foreign | Awards: 9 wins |Runtime: 107 Min | Format: DvdRip, Color, NTSC, Avi | Language: English, Zulu | Country: United Kingdom, South Africa
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