Tsotsi
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 27, 2021
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Miramax
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Presley Chweneyagae | |
Performer: | Kenneth Nkosi, Terry Pheto & Rapulana Seiphemo | |
Directed by | Gavin Hood | |
Screenwriting by | Gavin Hood | |
Original story by | Athol Fugard |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] sharp focus, epiphany snapshot....The semi-pro Presley Chweneyagae uses every iris-flex and eyebrow nudge...
Total Film
Hood elicits a great performance from Presley Chweneyagae as the delinquent hero slowly beginning to question his life of casual violence....Individual scenes are staged with tremendous verve.
Sight and Sound
[The] moody, minimalist film conveys a South African street thug's moral wake-up call without ham-fisted speeches...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: B+ --
Memorable, with a terrific performance by Presley Chweneyagae as Tsotsi that burns in its contained rage.
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Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Rating: 4/5 --
Gavin Hood's Oscar-nominated tale about a young South African gangster who gets an unexpected chance at redemption is literally a world apart from anything produced by Hollywood.
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Hollywood.com
The audience gasps in that odd mixture of surprise and recognition that great story-telling affords.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
A deeply moving portrait of a human being, suffering in life and not having any handle on how to deal with it. It's tragedy, not melodrama.
Arizona Republic
Product Description:
Based on South African playwright Athol Fugard's only novel, TSOTSI is a thrilling, provocative look at life in the ghettos outside present-day Johannesburg. Presley Chweneyagae stars as the title character, a teenager with a killer stare who lives alone in a ramshackle room in a poor shantytown, where he pulls off petty crimes with the help of three compatriots--Boston (Mothusi Magano), Butcher (Zenzo Ngqobe), and Aap (Kenneth Nkosi). But after they stab a man to death on the subway and Tsotsi (which means "thug" or "gangster") beats up Boston for trying to find out about his past, Tsotsi runs off to a wealthy section of the city, shoots a woman, and steals her car. Only later does he discover that there is a baby in the back seat--and decides to keep it for himself. As Tsotsi finally does look back at his own childhood, he tries to take care of the infant, carrying it around in a paper bag and forcing a young mother, Miriam (Terry Pheto), to breastfeed it at gunpoint. At this point, writer-director Gavin Hood could have opted for trite sentimentality, but instead he delves deeper into Tsotsi's psyche, as the young man might have already gone too far to turn back now. TSOTSI is a pulsating, electrifying film propelled by Chweneyagae's powerful, mesmerizing performance. The pounding soundtrack features popular local Kwaito music by Zola, who also plays crimelord Fela in the film. Winner of the 2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, TSOTSI "will rank as one of the best films ever to come out of South Africa," as Fugard himself said.
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- Sales Rank: 74,328
- UPC: 191329202968
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