Mini-review: “Disgrace.”

In Steve Jacobs’ cinematic version of J.M. Coetzee’s novel “Disgrace,” former Chicago actor John Malkovich effects a slightly sinister South African accent that sounds way too much like Count Dracula as a college lit professor.

He plays David Lurie, an unrepentant white who uses his academic position to have sex with a vulnerable student of mixed heritage. Not Rated (for mature audiences). 120 minutes. (Read more…)

Now playing at the Pipers Alley in Chicago.

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