"Born in the US, raised in apartheid-era South Africa, a reluctant star in her 20s following her big break in Schindler's List, and now a first-time director at the age of 60, Embeth Davidtz knows what it means to be an outsider. I've always had the feeling, she says, that I don't quite belong. Normally found in Los Angeles where she lives in a house once owned by Julie Andrews, with her husband, the entertainment lawyer Jason Sloane"
"She adapted Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight from Alexandra Fuller's 2001 memoir about her childhood in Zimbabwe, then called Rhodesia. Narrowing the action of the book down to a few months in 1980, when the country was approaching the elections that would see it regain its independence, Davidtz's film filters events through the eyes and ears of Bobo, played by Lexi Venter, an eight-year-old white girl living on a farm with her older sister and their fearful, racist parents."
Embeth Davidtz was born in the US and raised in apartheid-era South Africa and became a reluctant star in her twenties after a big break in Schindler's List. She lives in Los Angeles in a house once owned by Julie Andrews with her husband, entertainment lawyer Jason Sloane, and is in Cape Town for work and family. At age 60 she made her directorial debut, adapting Alexandra Fuller's memoir Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. The film compresses the memoir to months in 1980 and follows eight-year-old Bobo on a Rhodesian farm, exposing ingrained racist beliefs through her credulous voiceover and play with Black children.
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