Five Fingers For Marseilles

Name: Five Fingers For Marseilles
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Released: September 7, 2018
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Anthony Oseyemi, Brendon Daniels, Dean Fourie, Garth Breytenbach, Jerry Mofokeng

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Uncork'd Entertainment | Release Date: September 7, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Anthony Oseyemi, Brendon Daniels, Dean Fourie, Garth Breytenbach, Jerry Mofokeng, Kenneth Fok, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Vuyo Dabula, Warren Masemola, Zethu Dlomo

Summary: A member of the Five Fingers returns to colonial Marseilles after fleeing police aggression two decades before, and finds the town under a new threat.

Director: Michael Matthews

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Western

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 120 min

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Teo Bugbee

Sep 6, 2018

In stylish and entertaining fashion, Five Fingers for Marseilles looks over the South African countryside and finds fresh vistas for the western genre. Read full review

John Anderson

Sep 13, 2018

That the circuitous international influence of the western should manifest itself in South Africa is no surprise. Neither is the fact that someone as charismatic as Mr. Dabula should be the star of such a story, which is ripe with indignation, injustice, righteous violence and, ultimately, a shootout of cosmic resonance. Read full review

Bradley Gibson

Sep 25, 2018

Superb acting by all the leads and supporting players populate the desolate landscape with human dramas large and small in a place where people scrape a living out of harsh conditions. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Sep 5, 2018

Five Fingers of Marseilles is simultaneously familiar and unique. As befits a film set in an isolated corner of the pre-and-post-Apartheid country, the movie incorporates its contemporaneous circumstances into the plot. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 6, 2018

Five Fingers for Marseilles is a modern day Western, a tale of revolutionary South Africa and its aftermath, a world of blood, revenge, “stepping in” to right a great wrong, and fighting back. It’s a Sotho “Shane,” brutally beautiful and iconic, fraught with symbolism, harrowing in its violence and its consequences. Read full review

André Hereford

Sep 6, 2018

It cannot, unfortunately, boast a taut pace and narrative to match the mood of unease that fills the air like dust in this depressed desert outpost. Read full review

Josh Wise

Sep 4, 2018

What happens in this neo-western isn't dictated by the tried and true themes of classic westerns but by the films themselves. Read full review

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alexb00001

Oct 3, 2018

Five Fingers for Marseilles screams originality. Inspired by the style of Western films, director Michael Matthews brings to the table a South African based movie that transcends borders. Utilizing universal themes like brotherhood and friendship, right versus wrong, and the tensions betweenFive Fingers for Marseilles screams originality. Inspired by the style of Western films, director Michael Matthews brings to the table a South African based movie that transcends borders. Utilizing universal themes like brotherhood and friendship, right versus wrong, and the tensions between a government along with its people while pairing them with the crisp and clean landscapes of South Africa makes Five Fingers for Marseilles truly a work of art.… Expand