Jerome Salle’s Zulu, starring Orlando Bloom and Forrest
Whitaker, will close the 66th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 26, it was
announced Friday. The film, called part film noir and part social study,
depicts Bloom and Whitaker as two cops investigating a crime during the days of
apartheid.
Zulu,
co-written and directed by Jérôme Salle (of Anthony Zimmer, The Heir Apparent:
Largo Winch, The Burma Conspiracy) adapted from the novel of the same name by
Caryl Férey, is a thriller shot entirely on location in South Africa.
Storyline:
As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by
Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African
National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years.
But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain. Today, Ali is chief
of the homicide branch of the South African police in Cape Town. One of his
staff is Brian Epkeen, a free-wheeling white officer whose family was
originally involved in the establishment of apartheid but who works well with
Neuman. Together they have to deal with crime that inevitably exists in
sprawling areas of un -and under- employed people, crime exacerbated by gangs,
both local and from other parts of Africa. Their job gets even more difficult
when the corpses of two young women are found. A new evil has been introduced
in the city and a new drug has been introduced to its residents, including both
murder victims.
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