Blind Ambition: Movie Review
Blind Ambition: Movie Review Directors: Robert Coe, Warwick Ross A relatively genial documentary about an underdog wine-tasting group of competitors from a country where you wouldn't expect wine to be a thing has all kinds of sporting underdog comparisons. The idea of Cool Runnings and the Jamaican bob sled team springs immediately to mind, but Blind Ambition is less interested really in the idea of turning its protagonists into something to be joked with, cocking a snook at the establishment and winking at its audience as it does it. Blind Ambition recentres its narrative around four refugees who escaped their homeland of Zimbabwe and have made their names as South Africa's top sommeliers. Joseph, Marlvin, Tinashe and Pardon are all characters that embody the human spirit in the face of overwhelmingly crippling odds. One left his two-year-old son behind in Zimbabwe to live because the move to South Africa was a gamble that he didn't know they'd survive - it's that...