"Stander is an exciting, hard-driving, fast moving gangster picture and a sharp commentary on apartheid. As perceptive as it is vigorous, Stander crackles with forceful portrayals. Funny, violent, impassioned and inescapably poignant..."
-- Los Angeles Times review of Stander |
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"Watching the film is like seeing a gallery of Renaissance paintings come to life... to imagine the people envisioned and captured by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Caravaggio and Titian performing Shakespeare is to appreciate anew both the strangeness and vitality of early modern Europe, and to approach a visual understanding of the intellectual and artistic eclecticism that characterized the age..."
-- New York Times review of Merchant of Venice
A selection of reviews of films produced by Julia Verdin/Rough Diamond Productions:
• HM Magazine review of The Least Among Us
• New York Times review of Merchant of Venice
• Daily Variety review of Merchant of Venice
• Entertainment Weekly review of Stander
• People Magazine review of Stander
• New York Times review of Stander
• Variety review of Stander
• Independent UK review of Stander • Venice Magazine review of Stander
• Premiere Magazine review of Stander
• LA Times review of Stander
• Hollywood Life review of Stander
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