White to Colored and Back Again in Apartheid’s Maze
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
“Skin” is a fictionalized retelling of the true and terrible story of Sandra Laing, a South African woman whose race was classified and reclassified by the government, then in the mad grip of apartheid. Born in 1955 to officially white parents, Ms. Laing — played by an uncharacteristically unsteady Sophie Okonedo — was judged white. But when the child entered the larger world, her darker skin, and especially her tightly curled black hair, marked her as different. At 10, she was dragged out of school by the police because the principal had decided she wasn’t white. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (4434 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 29 Ottobre 2009
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