Flatland (2019)
Country: SA/LUX/GER
Technical: col 117m
Director: Jenna Cato Bass
Cast: Faith Baloyi, Nicole Fortuin, Izel Bezuidenhout, Eric Nobbs
Synopsis:
An orphaned black girl marries a white police officer and immediately lives to regret it. She shoots the pastor and takes off on horseback with her so-called stepsister. Meanwhile a black female detective refuses to believe that her jailbird former lover, who has confessed to the crime, actually did it.
Review:
If the film is to be credited, then being a woman in South Africa means becoming a child bride or an old maid, but you are accorded scant respect whatever you are. Starting out as a Thelma and Louise-style set-up, it then takes a left turn into Hal Hartley territory. In any event it takes too long to spill its beans. The two black actresses contribute rounded performances meanwhile.
Country: SA/LUX/GER
Technical: col 117m
Director: Jenna Cato Bass
Cast: Faith Baloyi, Nicole Fortuin, Izel Bezuidenhout, Eric Nobbs
Synopsis:
An orphaned black girl marries a white police officer and immediately lives to regret it. She shoots the pastor and takes off on horseback with her so-called stepsister. Meanwhile a black female detective refuses to believe that her jailbird former lover, who has confessed to the crime, actually did it.
Review:
If the film is to be credited, then being a woman in South Africa means becoming a child bride or an old maid, but you are accorded scant respect whatever you are. Starting out as a Thelma and Louise-style set-up, it then takes a left turn into Hal Hartley territory. In any event it takes too long to spill its beans. The two black actresses contribute rounded performances meanwhile.
Country: SA/LUX/GER
Technical: col 117m
Director: Jenna Cato Bass
Cast: Faith Baloyi, Nicole Fortuin, Izel Bezuidenhout, Eric Nobbs
Synopsis:
An orphaned black girl marries a white police officer and immediately lives to regret it. She shoots the pastor and takes off on horseback with her so-called stepsister. Meanwhile a black female detective refuses to believe that her jailbird former lover, who has confessed to the crime, actually did it.
Review:
If the film is to be credited, then being a woman in South Africa means becoming a child bride or an old maid, but you are accorded scant respect whatever you are. Starting out as a Thelma and Louise-style set-up, it then takes a left turn into Hal Hartley territory. In any event it takes too long to spill its beans. The two black actresses contribute rounded performances meanwhile.