is based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning South African writer J.M. Coetzee, who also penned this adaptation. Set in an unspecified geographical area that looks Middle Eastern but in an fantasy-on-a-budget kind of way, this is a beautifully, if austerely staged, parable that casts the always-reliable Mark Rylance as the well-meaning Magistrate.
Rylance’s character, only known as "the Magistrate," looks quite at ease in his job at a forgotten outpost of "the Empire," close to its desert borders. Most of his work is thoroughly routine, and he has been there long enough to have learned a few things about the locals and to have picked up something of their language . From what little we see of him in the early going, the Magistrate seems to be a wise and fair man who abhors violence of any sort.
As a screenwriter, Coetzee closely follows the general outline of his novel, which is in turn reminiscent of Dino Buzzati’s . Joll will return with more "barbarian" prisoners — the Magistrate prefers the term "nomads" — which Rylance’s character has released as soon as Joll leaves.
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