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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783133577
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 078313357X
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 13083
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Description:
After falling ill, Yesterday (Khumalo) learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa, Yesterday is an eloquent, unsentimental film that quietly builds an overwhelming emotional force
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As beautiful as it is heartbreaking, the Oscar®-nominated drama Yesterday brings an intimate human perspective to the AIDS crisis in Africa. On the surface, it's a harsh and devastating story about bad things happening to good people, but such a limited description robs the film of its warmth and tender compassion. Best known for his 1995 drama Cry the Beloved Country, director Darrell James Roodt returns to his native South Africa for this moving and heartfelt portrait of a young, devoted mother named Yesterday (played by Leleti Khumalo, from Hotel Rwanda) who learns that she is HIV positive, and remains determined to stay alive until her young daughter Beauty (Lihle Mvelase) is old enough to go off to school. Her husband (Kenneth Khambula) is also stricken with AIDS, and Yesterday cares for him even as they are ostracized by fearful neighbors in their tiny Zulu village. One might expect a film about AIDS to be terribly depressing, and Roodt pulls no punches when conveying the emotional anguish of Yesterday's dilemma. But Yesterday is so visually beautiful in terms of its physical and spiritual landscape (it was filmed in the expansive KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa) that it's universally appealing, and the score by Madale Kunene adds just the right emotional seasoning to the film's ethnic roots. Anyone with a beating heart can relate to Yesterday's plight as a caring wife and mother, and Khumalo's performance is so lovely that she lights up the screen, even (and perhaps especially) during Yesterday's darkest hours. Without pounding on its point, Yesterday puts a human face on a global crisis that's too often viewed on impersonal terms. --Jeff Shannon
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One of the finest I have ever seen. I lived in and observed life in Africa for 18 months, and feel that this movie captures the essence of rural life as I saw it. Some "professionals" might argue, for example, that no one would walk so far to seek medical help. However, I saw people walking everywhere, along freeways, in the country, in busy traffic. I have purchased and given away several copies to my American friends and wish that every person could have this touching glimpse of Africa.
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About 40% of all people infected with HIV live in a handful of southern and eastern countries in Africa. This first Zulu film with an international release (and original music) puts a human face on this nightmare. It also shines a light on the complex web of forces that conspire against Africans with HIV/AIDS, especially women. There is only one man in this film, John, and he's absent. John works in a mine in Johannesburg, passed the AIDS virus to his wife, Yesterday, and beats her when she tells ... Read More
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I bought "Yesterday" with no misgivings. I understood that it was an Oscar-nominated film in the category of Best Foreign Language movie. For me, that category holds lots of promise for a movie; one that is cinematically sound but little known in the US due to the language barrier. "Yesterday" lived up to those anticipations. It is a story of a woman who finds that she is infected with AIDS. It gives a look at the social stigma as it was felt by her in her native South Africa. It also gives ... Read More
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Please allow yourselves 95 minutes to see how this generation of Southern Africans live. Then: wake up; appreciate; feel. . .
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I've seen my share of powerful and moving films, but this is certainly one of the very best. A woman in Africa who's infected with HIV has to find the strength to wake up every single day and take care of her daughter. The emotions this film has is on a whole other level. First of all, it's true you have to read the English text on the bottom of the screen for the entire length of the movie, and honestly, I think this may be the first time I've actually done that (usually when the characters in ... Read More
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