Article: Black and white and dull all over: interracial sex is taboo in Proteus, but the storytelling fails to arouse.(Movie Review)

Proteus * Written by Jack Lewis and John Greyson * Directed by John Greyson * Starring Rouxnet Brown, Neil Sandilands * Strand Releasing

Writers and directors out to make movies based on true stories ought to keep in mind that just because it actually happened doesn't make it fascinating. That point is made painfully clear by Proteus, the fact-based movie from director John Greyson (Lilies, Zero Patience) and cowriter Jack Lewis. Sure, the raw material is potentially explosive, politically absorbing, and emotionally devastating: the forbidden 18th-century love affair between a black convict and a white convict sentenced to hard labor in a South African penal ...

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