1. [PDF] PRODUCTION NOTES - Indigenous Film Distribution
At first, Tau finds Marseilles a town seemingly at peace. The battle for freedom was won, and now the grown Five Fingers are in prominent positions – as mayor, ...
2. [PDF] The ruins of the rural idyll: reconfiguring the image of the farm ...
The land will decide: reconfiguring the idyll in Five Fingers for Marseilles. Five Fingers for Marseilles was directed by Michael Matthews and released in 2017.
3. Five Fingers for Marseilles – A Contemporary South African Western
2 apr 2018 · Five Fingers for Marseilles fuses western influences, from classic to spaghetti and revisionist eras, into a contemporary South African drama.
The great westerns have always contained socio-political threads, and Five Fingers’ loose allegory on today’s South Africa is edge-of-the-seat, and starkly human. Five Fingers for Marseilles fuses …
4. [PDF] Violence, Colonialism and Oppression in Five Fingers for Marseilles ...
In the South African Sesotho-language Western Five Fingers for Marseilles (2018), Tau flees his hometown of Marseilles in the aftermath of a violent incident.
5. Interview: "Five Fingers for Marseilles" Director Michael Matthews and ...
18 jan 2018 · The script developed from the location, infused with the outside Western archetypes. A lot of it came from working on the story in the actual [ ...
The filmmaking duo behind ' Five Fingers for Marseilles' discuss the decade-long journey of bringing South Africa's first Western to the screen.
6. “Five Fingers for Marseilles" is uniquely South African but accessible
5 sep 2018 · Michael Matthews and screenwriter Sean Drummond have created a welcome expansion of the western genre on the African continent.
“Five Fingers for Marseilles" is a welcomed addition to the western canon.
7. Movie Review: Five Fingers for Marseilles - SPLING
4 apr 2018 · Five Fingers for Marseilles is a gritty South African western directed by Michael Matthews and written by Sean Drummond, starring Vuyo Dabula and Hamilton ...
Five Fingers for Marseilles is a gritty South African western directed by Michael Matthews and written by Sean Drummond, starring
8. Five Fingers for Marseilles | Reelviews Movie Reviews
5 sep 2018 · Sean Drummond's screenplay opens with a nearly 20-minute long prologue that introduces the six main characters as children and illustrates the ...
Despite embracing the tropes one associates with theWestern, Michael Matthews’ Five Fingersof Marseilles transpires in an atypical locale: post-Colonial South Africa.Matthews reaffirms what Sergio Leone identified – the Western doesn’t ...