âMoffieâ Review: A Bleak Coming-of-Age
This grueling film about the South African military going to war with Angola is replete with vicious, stark depictions of racism and homophobia.
Kai Luke Brummer, center, in âMoffie.âCredit.IFC Films
Moffie
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From the mid-1960s to 1990, South Africa not only imposed apartheid but in a sense exported it. In Angola and nearby regions, white South African armies ostensibly fought communism in a long border war. Starting at age 16, white South African boys went through a period of mandatory military service.