Thursday, September 24, 2009

We've just been watching 'The Leader, his Driver and the Driver's Wife', Nick Broomfield's film made in 1991 about the final push of the white supremacist movement in South Africa and Eugene Terre'blanche in particular. Braodcast just before Mandela was released, it feels almost a relief to watch a doc which is big on the characters, not worried too much about traffic noise, about people being in shot, and fundamentally that Nick Broomfield wasn't exactly getting the interview he wanted. I really like programme-making that acknowledges the existence of the crew in the making of the film and the impact that has on how people are behaving.

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