Boesman & Lena

2000, Movie, NR, 88 mins

Boesman & Lena: Review

Samuel Beckett meets Edward Albee on the bleak mud flats of Capetown, South Africa, in this impassioned adaptation of Athol Fugard's 1969 anti-Apartheid play. Soon after a bulldozer levels their shack, Boesman (Danny Glover) and his "woman," Lena (Angela Bassett) find themselves setting up camp on the muddy shores of the Swarkops estuary. Nearly ten years after Bassett electrified audiences in WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT, she's finally been given another part worthy of her talents, and she makes the most of it. Read the complete review for Boesman & Lena