A 70-year-old widow dates her dead husband's ghost and it's somehow not a horror movie.
Magdaleen, a lonely widow in her 70s, creates an imaginary version of her deceased husband to numb the sadness and pain. After being so overwhelmed with her memories for so long, she desperately tries to re-enter the outside world and see the sea again that she has been longing for for months now.
Acting
Lida Botha carries entire emotional universes in silence.
Cinematography
The sea waits like a promise you forgot you made.
Direction
Sank treats delusion with radical tenderness.
Director
Jordy Sank
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lida and Johan Botha are not related despite sharing a surname—casting coincidence or intentional thematic echo?
The film emerged from South African cinema's quiet wave of Afrikaans-language stories about rural aging, rarely exported internationally. Magdaleen's imagined husband speaks to a generation of women who outlived their documented histories.
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