The Swenkas
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  • Summary: A documentary on a group of men in Johannesburg, South African who call themselves "Swenkas" and compete on Saturday nights for cash and prizes in a fashion show of their own making.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    88
    A beautifully shot, wonderfully moving film.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    It's "Saturday Night Fever," Johannesburg-style.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    70
    This peculiar and sweet film--which lushly scores the silent tournaments with Henry Mancini and Tommy Dorsey--more or less leaves it at that, exploiting the poetic surreality of the overdressed Zulus in Pierre Cardin primping in the basements and barren fields of the Transvaal but resisting the urge to contextualize or explain it.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leslie Felperin
    60
    Ronde demonstrates a painterly eye and ripe affection for these people, but as with "Jerusalem, My Love" he maintains a too-polite, worshipful distance from his subjects.

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