The White King (2016)
Overview
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
Cast
Lorenzo Allchurch
Djata
Agyness Deyn
Hannah
Fiona Shaw
Kathrin Fitz
Ross Partridge
Peter
Jonathan Pryce
Colonel Fitz
Greta Scacchi
General Meade
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Pickaxe
Clare-Hope Ashitey
Gaby
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Despite having a solid cast, this is a really pretty lacklustre story about a young boy "Djata" (Lorenzo Allchurch) who together with his mother "Hannah" (Agyness Deyn) must fight against a dictatorship that has arrested his father "Peter" (Ross Partridge) and branded them both traitors. His grandfather "Col. Fitz" (Jonathan Pryce) is a high ranking officer in this rather Draconian regime so there is plenty of plot for us to get out teeth into - except, well, there isn't really. The characterisations are undercooked; the dialogue offers us little to augment that and aside from the effort from Pryce as the man genuinely tormented by loyalty to state and to family, the rest of it is all just a bit flat. The production is decent enough, the look of the film shows aplomb from both the director and the cinematographer - it's just the really staccato, unrewarding, story that renders this an unremarkable watch that doesn't really use the talents at it's disposal at all well.
