to watch: Black Butterflies

18 Aug 2011, Posted by Cape Town Girl in CTG recommends, art, movies, muse, 0 Comments

Thanks to CTG reader Angela in Germany who sent me this, the trailer for Black Butterflies, the movie about South African poet legend Ingrid Jonker, described  by some as ‘South Africa’s Sylvia Plath’, and in Nelson Mandela’s own words:

“She was both a poet and a South African. She was both an Afrikaner and an African.
She was both an artist and a human being. In the midst of despair, she celebrated hope. Confronted by death, she asserted the beauty of life.”

Looks like a tear jerker but definitely one to watch. The movie itself is set in Cape Town and features lots of local scenes you will recognise. Jonker is an SA legend – go read her work if you don’t know it. She published her first collection of poems before she was 13. Child prodigy stuff 2 the max.