Disgrace

Surprisingly successful adaptation.

It's an enormously complicated story with great potential for reductive schmaltz, but this is avoided thanks to Anna Maria Monticelli's sharp, sensitive screenplay and superb performances.

It's hard to say what this solid but unadventurous film adds to Coetzee's powerful source material.

As you would expect Malkovich is at the top of his game and manages to make what most people would consider an ‘unlikeable’ character one where you are actually concerned what happens him. Nota comfortable watch but it is well worth the effort.