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'Back of the Moon': A Noirish apartheid-era South African film – People's World


Back of the Moon still, courtesy of The Bomb / Videovision Entertainment
Director/co-writer and Oscar nominee Angus Gibson’s
Back of the Moon is another example of why I love PAFF the Pan African Virtual Film + Arts Festival. If not for this festival film buffs like moi probably would never have heard of, let alone had the opportunity to see, this highly entertaining South African movie.
Moon is a gangster film in the way that Jean-Luc Godard’s 1959 New Wave
Breathless is. Sure,
Moon definitely has genre conventions of mobster movies, with references to other crime pictures. For example, the chilling, cunning Ghost (the outstanding Lemogang Tsipa) slashes the nose of a white journalist with a knife, an obvious wink and nod to 1974’s ....

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