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This beautifully crafted documentary has the Sea Point Promenade on the Cape Town waterfront as it’s setting. The film observes and explores issues of race, poverty, religion and homelessness in what was once an exclusive white suburb during the apartheid years. There is a mixed vibrancy of colour, sound, sunsets and in the distant horizon you can almost see the Notorious Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent 27 years of his life. As people of all colours use the public swimming pool, with the Muslim prayers by the beachfront, its ageing citizens reminiscent about its past, relieved that there can still go for their walks as well as to the theatre but concerned about the future of the white man in Africa.
No conclusions are drawn except that Cape Town like the rest of South Africa is a city in transition that is trying to forget its ugly past and perhaps suggesting a possibility of a promising future.
Director: François Verster
Writer: François Verster
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Country: South Africa
Year: 2008
Runtime: 90 min
