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Mood:
- SentimentalSincere
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Plot:
- Coming of AgeParents and ChildrenLove and RomanceMind and SoulYouthCouplesFamily ProblemsFamily Relations more...
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Genres:
- DramaComedyPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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Wah-Wah, 2005
English
UK, France, South Africa
Profile of Wah-Wah
The mood of Wah-Wah is sentimental and sincere. The plot centers around family problems, coming of age, and parents and children. It is a drama, comedy, and period movie. In approach, Wah-Wah is realistic. It happens in the 1960s.
Summary of Wah-Wah
Actor Richard E. Grant makes his directorial debut with this beguiling, semi-autobiographical dramatic comedy set in Swaziland at the end of British colonialism. Gabriel Byrne plays a member of the reigning British government, a cabal of hard-drinking, sexually duplicitous upper-crust types living in the thick heat of the African desert. Miranda Richardson plays Harry's wife, who runs off with another man. It's all seen through they eyes of the son who then comes home from boarding school to learn that his dad has married a feisty American (Emma Watson) and has developed a full-blown drinking problem. Meanwhile the British government is preparing to grant the country its independence, and the club mounts a production of CAMELOT to celebrate the arrival of Princess Margaret. Grant captures the anxiety-fueled perspective of a child forced to witness debauched adult behavior and the African backdrop is vividly etched (it's filmed entirely in Swaziland). As one might expect in a movie directed by a respected British actor, the cast is peerless: Byrne delivers a highly complex performance, veering from harrowing scenes of alcoholic violence to stiff-upper-lipped affectation; Watson breathes a wealth of dimension into a role that might have been a caricature of American crassness; Zachary Fox plays the pre-boarding school version of Ralph; and Nicholas Hoult plays Ralph's older incarnation.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, France, South Africa |
| Release date: | 15 January 2006 |
| Runtime: | 120 min |
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as Harry Compton
as Lauren Compton
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The New York Times
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- by: Jeannette Catsoulis
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Kevin Crust
