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Good Madam

  • Jenna Bass
  • 92 min
  • South Africa
  • 2021
  • Fiction
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Psychological thriller where political ghosts from the Apartheid era torture three generations of women in an affluent Cape Town villa.

Tsidi and her daughter are forced to move in with her mother Mavi. Since Tsidi was little, her mother has lived in a nice house in the Cape Town suburb Constantia, where she has worked as a maid for Diane. Tsidi got to grow up with her grandmother, and is now provoked by her mother’s loyal submission to her white “madame,” who is mysteriously absent in the house. As three generations are now to coexist in the lavishly furnished dwelling, peculiar things begin to happen. In Flatlands (GFF 2020), Jenna bass presented a political new interpretation of Westerns set in a South African context. In Good Madam she, in the same way, loads the horror genre with contemporary relevance and Apartheid history, and fires a thought-provoking, South African relative to Jordan Peele’s Get Out.

- Jonas Holmberg

Language
English, language.xhosa
Subtitles
English
Original title
Mlungu Wam
  • Historia
  • Feminism
  • Thriller
  • Rasism
Director
Jenna Bass
Screenplay
Sizwe Ginger Lubengu , Steve Larter , Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya , Peggy Tunyiswa , Siya Sikawuti , Babalwa Baartman , Nosipho Mtebe , Sanda Shandu , Jenna Cato Bass , Chris Gxalaba , Chumisa Cosa , Khanyiso Kenqa
Cinematographer
Jenna Cato Bass
Editor
Jacques De Villiers
Music
Simon Ratcliffe
Cast
Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya , Chumisa Cosa , Siya Sikawuti , Nosipho Mtebe , Sanda Shandu , Chris Gxalaba , Khanyiso Kenqa , Sizwe Ginger Lubengu , Jennifer Boraine , Peggy Tunyiswa
Contact
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