Rejecting vengeance in favor of an almost unimaginable well of forgiveness, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission marked an extraordinary reckoning with South Africa's blighted recent past: Those guilty of violent acts during the apartheid era could seek amnesty if they confessed their crimes truthfully, expressed contrition, and could show they were following orders issued from above. John Boorman's schematic treatment of the hearings, in which victims and perpetrators came face to face, centers on Anna (Juliette Binoche), a white Afrikaner poet covering the commission for radio, and Langston (Samuel L. Jackson), an African... More >>>