Graham Bartholomew
Unit Stills Photographer
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Although the western has been a genre largely dormant in 21st-century Hollywood, the well-defined boundaries of its storytelling continue to inspire filmmakers elsewhere in the world. The Marseilles of Five Fingers isn’t the French seaport but a dusty town at the edge of South Africa, a Tombstone on the Veld of a nation struggling to finds its identity in the post-Apartheid era. Director Michael Matthews and screenwriter Sean Drummond adapt a familiar western trope: the man who returns home after a long absence and becomes determined to set the situation right. With its flat-topped rocky outcroppings, its scrubby brush and the whistle of lonesome trains passing in the night, the landscape around Marseilles could easily be the setting for a story in the American West.
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