The Quarry

An unabashedly allegorical film about race relations in South Africa, this handsomely photographed film comes up a little short in the drama department. A nameless white man (Irish actor John Lynch) is on the run, and gets a lift from a middle-aged minister (Serge-Henri Valcke), also white and en route to his new position with a church in an isolated black township. The minister makes a sexual overture to the fugitive, who rebuffs him with a beer bottle; to his horror, he realizes he's accidentally killed the older man. So he hides the body in a quarry, takes the reverend's car and assumes his identity, apparently figuring that any new life — even one minister...