In 1974, when it seemed as though everyone was leaving South Africa, Embeth Davidtz’s family was going back. Davidtz, a ...

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight does what the best films do— take you to another time and place that, somehow, feels all too familiar right now.

Discovery Lexi Venter anchors Davidtz's impressionistic adaptation of a memoir of rural life during the Rhodesian Bush War.

Writer-director Embeth Davidtz offers a beguiling film inspired by Alexandra Fuller’s 2001 memoir about her childhood in ...

Seven-year-old performer Lexi Venter delivers a feral, unforgettable performance in "Schindler's List" actor Embeth Davidtz’s ...

Embeth Davidtz told UPI her memories from working with Steven Spielberg and Robert Altman influenced her own directorial debut, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," in theaters Friday.

Bobo, a white girl growing up on a farm in Africa, has a mop of unruly hair, smudgy cheeks, and a fondness for cigarettes at ...

The film tells the story of Rhodesia’s transformation from British colony into the independent nation of Zimbabwe through a ...

It took Embeth Davidtz six years to bring "Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight" to the big screen. It's based on a 2001 memoir ...

Embeth Davidtz was a hard-working actress, and then she found her voice as a writer/director. Thanks to a cancelled series, ...

The family drama elegantly realized in “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” is relayed entirely through the perspective of Bobo (Lexi Venter), a white child who witnesses her mother spinning out ...