South Africa's most anticipated film, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom will hit cinema screens throughout the country today (28 November 2013). The film has received rave reviews from a diverse range of critics in South Africa.
Read MoreMandela: Long Walk To Freedom, the highly anticipated film adaptation of Nelson Mandela's autobiography, made its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, 7 September 2013. The film received an unprecedented eight minute standing ovation coupled with a rapturous applause at the Festival's Gala venue, the 2600-seater The Roy Thomson Hall, resulting in social media platforms buzzing with praise for the film. The film had a sell-out second screening in the 2000-seater Princess Of Wales Theatre with crowds queuing up an entire block to get to see the film.
Read MoreIt takes a commanding actor to fill the shoes of the man most instrumental in ending institutionalized oppression in South Africa, and the charismatic Idris Elba proves equal to the task in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Directed by Justin Chadwick with perhaps an inhibiting sense of cultural responsibility but also with the emotional sweep that such a momentous life story demands, this is sumptuously produced epic-scale bio-drama stamped from the classic mold.
Read MoreMandela: Long Walk To Freedom - Official South African website for the Nelson Mandela Film.
