Product Details

• Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Junior Singo
• Directors: Ntshavheni Wa Luruli
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: TLA Releasing
• DVD Release Date: March 15, 2005
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00077BPI2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,581 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars choose the camera, January 24, 2007

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Daniel B. Clendenin (www.journeywithjesus.net) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Wooden Camera (DVD)

In the first few minutes of this South African film two young teenage friends discover a dead body with a huge pistol and a video camera. The shy introvert Madiba chooses the camera, while cocky Sipho takes the gun. The film explores the consequences of those choices. Madiba hides the VCR in a home-made wooden camera, enabling him to shoot everyone and anything on the sly. He experiments with the aesthetic, technical and voyeuristic aspects of film-making. Refracting light with different lenses, candles, floating plastic bags, and even the bubbles of a drink awaken his artistic bent. His cinematic creations form a significant portion of the film. "Some day," he hopes, "my pictures will hang in houses." Sipho's gun awakens in him foolish bravado, and we watch him descend to petty crime, drugs, gangs and finally horrible tragedy. Between them both is an improbable, budding romance between Madiba and a rebellious white girl, Estelle, from a wealthy family with racist secrets of their own. This film is good, not great, but well worth watching for its themes of adolescence, choices, fate, friendship, and racism in a post-apartheid township of Cape Town.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A tale of friendship and more, October 20, 2005

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chicoer2003 "chicoer2003" (Fresno, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wooden Camera (DVD)

Wooden Box is a tale of friendship between children of different South African social classes. It's reminicent of a Brazilian slum movie, but with aspects of the ills of society (racism) A good unknown cast of young actors helps the movie.

5.0 out of 5 stars superb!, January 30, 2011

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dln819 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Wooden Camera (DVD)

I loved that the plot was absolutely unpredictable and flowed through the eyes of youth who envision hope and possibilities in this world of mazed impossibilities. It is a journey into again the human condition without solution only the potential for change which is precisely where we are.