FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES Is Essential Tastemaker Cinema
It was a few years ago that Be Phat Motel duo Michael Matthews and Sean Drummond rose to the occasion with stunning short sci-fi proof adaptation of Charlie Human’s Apocalypse Now Now. With that project in tow for a full feature film presentation, they’ve also become headturners in the festival circuit with their latest debut at the help further putting South Africa in the lucrative crosshairs with revenge/redemption western, Five Fingers For Marseilles. Long before becoming the kind of milestone cinema drawing crowds in Canada, Korea, the U.S. and other fests abroad, Five Fingers For Marseilles sat in development for eight years before filming in 2016. Matthews’ research, in addition to covering tens of thousands of miles of land throughout South Africa, also included listening to stories from Sesotho locals – some which he once even stated to 702 were pretty gruesome in comparison to what he chose for his […]
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