Cinema Paradiso in Perth is going to some trouble to promote ‘Tsotsi’, even finding a link to Phil Noyce.
Australian Director Phillip Noyce is one of the many fans of the film, and liked the lead actress so much so that she appears in his new film Hotstuff out later this year.
Luna Palace cinemas spoke to Australian Director Phillip Noyce who was in South Africa last year, making his new film, where he saw an early cut of Tsotsi. He thought it was brilliant ‘As soon as I saw it, I realised it was a breakthrough for South African movies’ he said. It was the first time that a story had been told about the experiences in the black townships, that was not in English. The film was made in ‘Tsotsi-taal’ – an amalgam of Sotho, Tswana, Zulu, Afrikaans and English. According to Noyce, this opens up a whole new genre in World Cinema, that of the townships, which is where an enormous percentage of the population live.
