The Swenkas
Seventh Art Releasing | Release Date: November 9, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
A beautifully shot, wonderfully moving film. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
It's "Saturday Night Fever," Johannesburg-style. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
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. Read full review
70
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Intriguing documentary. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
When these proudly strutting dandies glide through a grimy basement as if they didn't have a care in the world, their joy is irresistible, and Ronde's point is made. Read full review
60
VarietyLeslie Felperin
Ronde demonstrates a painterly eye and ripe affection for these people, but as with "Jerusalem, My Love" he maintains a too-polite, worshipful distance from his subjects. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
It all feels formal and unreal, the product of high ritual. But it also feels like one of the few rituals they're playing out entirely for themselves rather than for the sake of Rønde's neatly packaged modern fairy tale. Read full review
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