Yesterday
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Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Starring: Harriet Lenabe, Lihle Mvelase, Kenneth Khambula, Leleti Khumalo, Camilla Walker
Directed By: Darrell Roodt
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783133577
Format: Closed-captioned
ISBN: 078313357X
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-01-10
Running Time: 95
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
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Summary: Pulls on heart strings..
Comment: This movie is simply beautiful from beginning to end. Even though it's sad the way Yesterday finds out she is infected, her tenacity and devotion is unbelievable. Her love for her family truly sustains her through it all in every sense of the word. The strength she projects throughout the film reminds us that we have no idea what we are capable of until we are put in a particular situation. Even her daughter Beauty, in her innocence of childhood, displays a level of strength you would not expect in a child of her age. The scenery and music just added to the splendor of this movie. I'm just sorry there is no soundtrack available. Everyone should see this movie, and do whatever they can in an effort to find a cure for all.
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Summary: Yesterday
Comment: 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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Summary: the human face of HIV-AIDS
Comment: 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 him the bad news about her "falling down sickness." Yesterday was so named by her father who said that "things were better yesterday than today." And so they were. Yesterday struggles to raise her daughter, Beauty, but the forces against her are many: economic exploitation, superstitions in her remote village, cultural myths, gender discrimination, environmental degradation, a paucity of medical care that's a two-hour walk, etc. But like so many brave women, Yesterday vows, "Until my child goes to school, I'll not die of this disease." Yesterday has earned several nominations and awards at international film festivals, and was the nominee for best foreign language film by the South African Academy Award. In Zulu with English subtitles.
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Summary: Today
Comment: 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 a look at a person whose determination helps her to remain focussed while much around her crumbles. In that sense it is a moving tale of courage mixed with a look at life in a rural South African village and the challenges that adds to Yesterday's dilemna.
The leading actress, Leleti Khumalo, has an infectuous smile that endears us to her from the start. The entire cast was new to me and I confess that I was aprehensive when I saw that the movie was produced by HBO Films. I was afraid to find a "made for (cable) TV" look about it. I'm glad to say that my fears were relieved (However, I fully expected the film to close with an on-screen lecture about the ravaging effects of the spread of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa...it didn't). If the movie has any shortcomings then, for me, they lie in its' failure to more fully develop the community that Yesterday lives in. While much was covered in that area, much was left to our imagination.
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Summary: "Oh generation of the thoroughly smug. . ."
Comment: Please allow yourselves 95 minutes to see how this generation of Southern Africans live. Then: wake up; appreciate; feel. . .
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Pulls on heart strings..
Comment: This movie is simply beautiful from beginning to end. Even though it's sad the way Yesterday finds out she is infected, her tenacity and devotion is unbelievable. Her love for her family truly sustains her through it all in every sense of the word. The strength she projects throughout the film reminds us that we have no idea what we are capable of until we are put in a particular situation. Even her daughter Beauty, in her innocence of childhood, displays a level of strength you would not expect in a child of her age. The scenery and music just added to the splendor of this movie. I'm just sorry there is no soundtrack available. Everyone should see this movie, and do whatever they can in an effort to find a cure for all.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Yesterday
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: the human face of HIV-AIDS
Comment: 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 him the bad news about her "falling down sickness." Yesterday was so named by her father who said that "things were better yesterday than today." And so they were. Yesterday struggles to raise her daughter, Beauty, but the forces against her are many: economic exploitation, superstitions in her remote village, cultural myths, gender discrimination, environmental degradation, a paucity of medical care that's a two-hour walk, etc. But like so many brave women, Yesterday vows, "Until my child goes to school, I'll not die of this disease." Yesterday has earned several nominations and awards at international film festivals, and was the nominee for best foreign language film by the South African Academy Award. In Zulu with English subtitles.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Today
Comment: 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 a look at a person whose determination helps her to remain focussed while much around her crumbles. In that sense it is a moving tale of courage mixed with a look at life in a rural South African village and the challenges that adds to Yesterday's dilemna.
The leading actress, Leleti Khumalo, has an infectuous smile that endears us to her from the start. The entire cast was new to me and I confess that I was aprehensive when I saw that the movie was produced by HBO Films. I was afraid to find a "made for (cable) TV" look about it. I'm glad to say that my fears were relieved (However, I fully expected the film to close with an on-screen lecture about the ravaging effects of the spread of AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa...it didn't). If the movie has any shortcomings then, for me, they lie in its' failure to more fully develop the community that Yesterday lives in. While much was covered in that area, much was left to our imagination.
Customer Rating:
Summary: "Oh generation of the thoroughly smug. . ."
Comment: Please allow yourselves 95 minutes to see how this generation of Southern Africans live. Then: wake up; appreciate; feel. . .
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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