ONE MAN’S POISON

Twenty-seven years after his UCLA graduate thesis film Shot Down was banned in SA — though later acclaimed as a definitive cult film at festivals — writer-director Andrew Worsdale made

Durban Poison, a noir romance set among the marginalised white underclass. Inspired by a true story, this is a road movie within a road movie that follows a police investigation into four murders and charts the doomed romance of the outlaw lovers, played by Brandon Auret

and Cara Roberts. The film also stars Gys de Villiers, Marcel van Heerden, Danny Keogh, Drikus Volschenk, Marie Human and Frank Opperman, and features an original score as well as songs by Durban-born musician Jim Neversink.

Durban Poison will show at The Goethe Centre in Windhoek at 7pm on Saturday May 31. In SA, it will have a limited release at The Bioscope in Joburg and Labia Cinema in Cape Town from the end of June.