The crime thriller Zulu has been selected to close this year's Cannes Film Festival on May 26th, 2013.
Directed by Jérôme Salle from a screenplay co-written by Salle and Julien Rappeneau, and based on the novel of the same title by Caryl Férey, the film stars Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom as police officers in South Africa investigating a brutal murder during the period of apartheid. (More details about the book, below.)
The festival opens with another film adapted from a novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, with Leonardo DiCaprio as the 1920s millionaire Jay Gatsby, played by Robert Redford in the 1974 version of the film.
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Zulu
Caryl Férey
Winner of the 2008 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for Best Crime Novel.
As a child, Ali Neuman ran away from home to escape the Inkatha, a militant political party at war with the then-underground African National Congress. He and his mother are the only members of his family that survived the carnage of those years and the psychological scars remain.
Today, Neuman is chief of the homicide branch of the Cape Town police, a job in which he must do battle with South Africa's two scourges: widespread violence and AIDS. When the mutilated corpse of a young white woman is found in the city's botanical gardens, Neuman's job gets even more difficult. He is chasing one false lead after another when a second corpse, again that of a white woman, is found. This time, the body bears signs of a Zulu ritual. A new evil has insinuated itself into this recently integrated city. And a new drug: traces of an unknown narcotic have been found in the blood of both victims.
The investigation will take Neuman back to his homeland, where he will discover that the once bloody killing fields have become the ideal no-man's land for unscrupulous multinationals, and that the apparatchiks of apartheid still lurk in the shadows and the back rooms of a society struggling toward reconciliation.
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