Five Fingers for Marseilles

Released Sep 7, 2018

2h 0m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

Western

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A member of the Five Fingers returns to colonial Marseilles after fleeing police aggression two decades before, and finds the town under a new threat.

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Critics Consensus

Five Fingers for Marseilles brings the spaghetti Western to South Africa, with stylishly entertaining - albeit slightly uneven - results.

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John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

[Five Fingers for Marseilles] is ripe with indignation, injustice, righteous violence and, ultimately, a shootout of cosmic resonance.

Sep 14, 2018

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Kevin Crust

Los Angeles Times

A brutal but thoughtful film invoking subtle social allegory, "Marseilles" demonstrates both the durability and elasticity of the genre.

Sep 13, 2018

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Matt Fagerholm

RogerEbert.com

There are no thrills in this western yarn, just a mounting series of tragedies that are by turns frustrating and numbing.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 7, 2018

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

This is not simply a distinctive western; it is a masterful one.

Rated: 9/10

Aug 31, 2021

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Thomas Harris

Flickering Myth

Five Fingers For Marseilles is an impressively put together western that manages to balance entertainment with palpable political discourse.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 19, 2019

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Sean Burns

WBUR’s Arts & Culture

A craggy, gutbucket epic full of slightly silly, mythopoetic grandeur and a tart taste of regional politics. It's amazing how well some tropes travel.

Dec 7, 2018

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Audience Member

I really enjoyed this film. It showed what a South African Western could look like

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Audience Member

First half was interesting, good character development and filmed beautifully so that one could forgive the western cliches peppered throughout. Unfortunately it wasn't sustained and the latter part of it let it down especially the OK corral shoot out (a poor Tarantino inspired melodramatic mess). Still don't get why they had the very contrived last shoot out that left one man standing.... Pity as it could have been so much better if they had kept it honest and realistic in the latter half and omitted the Hollywood inspired action scenes.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

Such a gorgeous and haunting film. The cinematographer is brilliant and it is beautifully directed. I didn't understand the ending but that does change the fact that I LOVED this film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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Audience Member

What a deception! That should resume the movie. This psycho-western is long, fill with undevelopped characters and his story is very generic. When I look at the trailer, I already knew the movie would be a movie of a different kind, but that realisation is a fail. Beautiful picture yes, original concept maybe but bad execution. I rarely look at the clock, but for this movie every 20 minutes at look to know when the action will come. It finally arrive in the last minutes and that ending was terribly confuse and illogical. A movie to avoid, even for Western fans.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Audience Member

Magnificent scenery and powerful performances all round. The whole movie (whilst I'm giving it a good 3.5 out of 5) bothered me. That's not to say it was a bad movie, - because it wasn't. It just got upsetting & frustrating, & as with all films, if you just take out the bad dude initially - game over. Whilst I get there wouldn't have been a movie to continue on with, I spent a majority of the film yelling at the screen, as there were way too many lost opportunities to get the baddy when they had the chance.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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The story is a strong commentary on social and economic disparage plaguing this world. In this case a world of post-modern, rural life set in South Africa. It is a full-bodied, complex character study with heart and a hefty dose of classic spaghetti western attitude. The protagonist is a compelling, emotional character that shows all the scares and tribulations of a hard life. Scares he wears effectively on his sleeve. A very convincing performance. The antagonists and varied townsfolk are all equally convincing personals and framed nicely in the story. The effects are standard, well-done elements one expects in a somewhat violent tome of expressionist folderol which plays out as perfect as any 70's experimental American western. The real effects are the musical score, atmosphere and cinematography. All are exceptional. The film isn't excessively exploitative with the bloodshed or violence, so when it happens it becomes very affectational moments.Overall "Five Fingers For Marseilles" is above average for indie film making. It does move a bit slow but the pace becomes almost hypnotic in its ability to capture your attention and be entertaining.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Michael Matthews

Director

Zethu Dlomo

Lerato

Kenneth Fok

Wei

Garth Breytenbach

Officer De Vries

Warren Masemola

Thuto

Anthony Oseyemi

Congo

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Synopsis

A member of the Five Fingers returns to colonial Marseilles after fleeing police aggression two decades before, and finds the town under a new threat.

Director: Michael Matthews
Producer: Paulo Areal, Joshua A. Green, Dumi Gumbi, Jeff Hoffman
Screenwriter: Sean Drummond
Distributor: Uncork'd Entertainment
Production Co: Game 7 Films, The Be Phat Motel Film Company, Stage 5 Films
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Western
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 7, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 23, 2018
Runtime: 2h 0m

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