Proteus with Rouxnet Brown: DVD Cover

    Proteus Director: John Greyson, Jack Lewis Cast: Rouxnet Brown, Shaun Smyth, Neil Sandilands, Kristen Thomson

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    • DVD Release Date: 12/07/2004
    • Original Release: 2003
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 43,084

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    Features

    Radio interview with Jack Lewis & John Greyson with Celluloid Dreams, host, Tim Sika; Original theatrical trailer

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Opening Sequence [4:46]
    2. 1725 [9:17]
    3. The Ideal Garden [7:50]
    4. The Legend of Sugarbush [8:41]
    5. Species of Man [9:24]
    6. Mr. Niven [10:13]
    7. 5 Years Later [7:13]
    8. Abominable Act [6:17]
    9. Job Offer [7:41]
    10. Caught in the Act [8:22]
    11. Final Judgement [17:46]
    12. End Credits [5:23]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Canadian filmmaker John Greyson teams up with South African activist Jack Lewis to direct the period romantic drama Proteus. Based on a true story from 1735, the story involves a forbidden love affair between two prisoners in a colony near Cape Town. Black servant Claas Blank (Rouxnet Brown) is arrested for stealing back his own cattle from a white man. Because he has learned to speak English and Dutch, he is allowed to help European botanist Virgil Niven (Shaun Smyth) cultivate flowers. Part of his punishment is fetching water with white Dutch prisoner Jacobsz (Neil Sandilands), who eventually becomes his lover. After Niven leaves the colony, Blank and Jacobsz are caught and forced to confess. Proteus was shown at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival. Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide

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    November 29, 2005: Proteus is set in 1735 on a prison island off the coast of South Africa. Two prisoners, one Dutch the other Hottentot, are attracted to one another first physically and then emotionally. The director John Greyson attempts to argue that this kind of love affair transcends time and place. In spite of its 18th century time frame, there is a truck, 1960s style manual typewriters, and occasionally modern dress. The photography is splendid, and the story line compelling. If you expect to see homoerotic lovemaking, this is not the movie. The love scenes are the weakest part of the movie.