Directed by Pia Marais
South Africa/Germany | Fiction | 2013 | 108 min
Film Source: Filmmaker
Showtime: Sunday, October 30 | 11:00 am | FH
For her third feature film, Pia Marais – who has lived in Berlin for many years – returned to South Africa where she grew up to make this classy thriller. Layla Fourie (Rayna Campbell), a young single-mother who works as a polygraph examiner, is sent far away to test potential employees for a casino. She has to take her young son Kane with her because she has no one she can turn to for help. When an accident happens along the way, Layla doesn’t fully appreciate the effect it has on both her and her son and the consequences it will create. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear, she soon becomes a suspect herself. Layla Fourie develops into a political thriller which takes the audience into the paranoia, fear and mistrust of a society that is still profoundly affected by racial conflict. ~OY