Necktie Youth (2015)
Anyone who grows up in Sandton spends a lot of time hanging out at pools and drug-filled parties – for this part of Johannesburg is the richest spot in the whole of Africa. Necktie Youth portrays this first post-apartheid gilded youth in striking black-and-white. Soft colours are reserved for their childhood memories of the early years of the rainbow nation. White 19-year-old Emily did not understand the codes of their set and could not take the pace of the ever-changing, fleeting liaisons, says the super cool, black and privileged September when he tries to explain to a TV reporter why Emily hung herself in her parents’ garden. She even positioned her camera in such a way that her suicide could be streamed live.
- Date of release
- 2015-04-15
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Director
- Sibs Shongwe-La Mer
Casting
- Sibs Shongwe-La Mer — September
- Bonko Khoza — Jabz
- Colleen Balchin — Tanya
- Kamogelo Moloi — Bogosi
- Emma Tollman — Nikki
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