Chicago Reader Capsule Review




Fred Camper writes a capsule review of Cape of Good Hope in the Chicago Reader:

"Director Mark Bamford has a feel for the entanglements of daily life, and his lively editing rhythm holds the multiple stories together. In what has to be one of cinema's best marriage proposals..."

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Cape of Good Hope 
Capsule by Fred Camper
From the Chicago Reader
This 2004 comedy drama follows characters connected to a Cape Town animal shelter run by a woman who's sworn off marriage while pursing a furtive affair with a married man. Director Mark Bamford has a feel for the entanglements of daily life, and his lively editing rhythm holds the multiple stories together. In what has to be one of cinema's best marriage proposals, a refugee from Congo with a PhD in astronomy asks a woman to marry him by telling her to tear up unopened a letter from Canada that might say he'd be welcome as an immigrant. The enduring racism in South Africa is noted, but this is mostly a tearjerker. In English and subtitled Afrikaans and Xhosa. 107 min.

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Posted: Sat - January 7, 2006 at 02:01 PM          

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