The Swenkas
2005VOTE NOW
| Seventh Art Releasing | Release Date: November 9, 2005 |
Summary:
A documentary on a group of men in Johannesburg, South African who call themselves "Swenkas" and compete on Saturday nights for cash and prizes in a fashion show of their own making.
This peculiar and sweet film--which lushly scores the silent tournaments with Henry Mancini and Tommy Dorsey--more or less leaves it at that, exploiting the poetic surreality of the overdressed Zulus in Pierre Cardin primping in the basements and barren fields of the Transvaal but resisting the urge to contextualize or explain it.
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