Hotel Rwanda | Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle | One of the most inspirational movies I watched

Hotel Rwanda | Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle | dvd

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Hotel Rwanda

	Hotel Rwanda Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle MGM (Video & DVD), 2005 average customer review:based on 321 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Once you find out what happened in Rwanda you'll never forget. Oscar® nominee* Don Cheadle (Traffic) gives "the performance of his career in this extraordinarily powerful" (The Hollywood Reporter) and moving true story of one man's brave stance against savagery during the 1994 Rwandan conflict. Sophie Okonedo (Dirty Pretty Things) co-stars as the loving wife who challenges a good man to become a great man.As his country descends into madness five-star-hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (Cheadle) sets out to save his family. But when he sees that the world will not intervene in the massacre of minority Tutsis he finds the courage to open his hotel to more than 1200 refugees. Now with a rabid militia at the gates he must use his well-honed grace flattery and cunning to protect his guests from certain death.SPECIAL FEATURES:Audio Commentary by Director Terry George and Paul Rusesabagina With Select Commentary by Wyclef Jean Selected Scenes Commentary by Don Cheadle "A Message for Peace: Making Hotel Rwanda" Documentary "Return to Rwanda" Documentary Original Theatrical TrailerRunning Time 122 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 027616925121 Manufacturer No: M108739

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One of the most inspirational movies I watched

Very moving. Besides Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo, I like the performance of Nick Nolte a lot.

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I gave this as a gift. They were very pleased as they had been to Africa that year and said it depicted some of the areas they travelled.

Powerful and stunning fictionalized (but fact-based) history

Don Cheadle, as Paul Ruseasabagina, the Rwandan Manager of a 4-star hotel which serves as a haven for Europeans and African Elites, gives a performance that is at once measured, controlled and deeply anguished. As a fact-based but fictionalized account, "Hotel Rwanda" captures the horror and absolute madness of racially-based war that had its origins in European colonialization when the Germans (and later the Belgians, to much more devastating effect) exalted the Tutsis (for the their more "European" physical characteristics) as the prominent ruling class over the Hutus. The ebb and flow of decades-long resentments finally came to a head in 1994, when close to a million Tutsis were felled in a horrific blood-bath--and all in the face of European and American indifference.

Cheadle's Ruseasabagina (a Hutu who is married to a Tutsi, played by Sophie Okonedo )first shows an unremarkable decency that ascends to heroic proportions as he risks the lives of himself and family, attempting to shield and help well over 1200 people--first by crowding them into his Hotel, a temporary "safe house" and then by bartering transportation away from the encroaching Hutu militia. The film's intensity is heightened by the fact that many surviving Rwandan refugees from that era were recruited as extras--essentially reliving, in a sense, a most horrendous nightmare. The movie also benefits enormously from provocative performances given by Sophie Okonedo (as Tatiana, his long-suffering wife); Nick Nolte who, as the near-ineffectual commander of UN peacekeepers, gets across the utter shame and disgust felt by many who were essentially powerless to stop the massacre; and Joaquin Phoenix in a bit part as a randy reporter who has an affair with a local Tutsi and then abandons her as casually as one would an anonymous call girl.

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