Antoine Fuqua’s timely new Sundance documentary about Nelson Mandela proves the Oscar Wilde quote true: “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
“Troublemaker” premiered on Tuesday night in Park City, Utah — the last hurrah before Sundance moves to Colorado — the title inspired by the Xhosa translation of Mandela’s birth name.
The hook of the film is undiscovered audio from Mandela’s time writing his biography “Long Walk to Freedom,” a confessional text that charted his activist awakening, 27-year imprisonment and eventual historic presidency in South Africa.
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