Invictus
- 2009
- US
- 2h 13min
- 12A
- Directed by: Clint Eastwood
- Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon
- Language: English, Afrikaans, Maori
- Website: invictusmovie.warnerbros.com
Based on a book by John Carlin, Invictus recounts how Nelson Mandela pulled off the political masterstroke of uniting a racially and economically divided South Africa in support of national rugby team the Springboks, once a symbol of Boer-ish oppression. This has a predictable trajectory but one leavened by minute details about the tedium of governance, ingrained prejudices and a belief that hope will always spring eternal.
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Invictus
1 Feb 2010
(12A) 133min ‘Rugby is’ as Oscar Wilde noted on behalf of the sane and humane ‘a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the centre of the city.’ Clint Eastwood’s new film Invictus not only invites the bullies back within the city walls but…
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