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Skemerdans is a gritty neo-noir crime thriller with an incredible cast
Our local crime TV offerings continue to give me goosebumps.
Iâve just started watching âSkemerdansâ on Showmax and Iâm blown away by the star power, script, cinematography and directing. Wow!
If you were put off by the fact that it is in Afrikaans, donât be.
This Cape Flats neo-noir murder mystery is bolstered by a phenomenal cast of Kevin Smith, Ilse Klink, Vinette Ebrahim, Brendon Daniels, Carmen Maarman, Trudy van Rooy, Kim Syster, Danny Ross, Carl Weber, Bongo Mbutuma, Sanda Shandu and the late Ceagan Arendse.
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Skemerdans is a neo-noir murder mystery set on the Cape flats, set for release on Thursday, 28th of April. It is set at the Oasis jazz club and follows a struggling businessman Glenn Fortune, his family and various cohorts. Skemerdansâs literal translation is dusk dance; as you watch you will see how this plays out.
I went into the first episode apprehensively. I was expecting a stereotypical depiction of the cape flats and gangsterism; with some styling and better lighting. I was wrong.
Skemerdans opens with shots of Klipfontein road at night. The neon lights shimmer, and it sets the tone that all that glitters is not gold. Glenn Fortune is played expertly by Kevin Smith from Isidingo fame. He is perfectly cast as the patriarch of the Fortune family. His Oasis jazz club is not just about the music and drinks, and we get the feeling something else is brewing. He has a cool demeanour, and you can tell he is the
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A world-class psychiatrist believes that she has developed a therapeutic agent that reaches into deep traumas of the subconscious. When four strangers end up on a farm for treatment, extraordinary things happen.
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When in the veld and you find yourself with a small cut on your finger, a spider’s web will stop the bleeding.
Or at least so it’s believed according to an age-old boereraat . These untested home remedies are as part of Afrikaans heritage as melktert recipes. Using nature’s medicinal properties and exploring herbology isn’t a foreign concept. But trust me if I tell you that there runs a thin line in the more conservative side of the culture between a soothing tea for a sore throat and a witches’ brew dabbling in the occult.
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