, has subverted the cowboy genre with her imprint: an unorthodox take on a familiar world.
When Poppie’s aunt finds Natalie in her bloody wedding dress in their house — on the eve of their flight — and says: “What the fuck is your n****r girl doing here?”, Poppie puts a gun to her head. “I’ve told you before, don’t call Natalie a n****r,” she says. “South Africans expect a film to be a particular tone or subculture: a funny movie that makes fun of things, or a gangster movie with white policemen, or a sad movie about HIV. Even in world cinema, people tend to expect one thing,” says Bass.is such a strange mix: a very unusual mix of genres, characters and tones and emotions, all in one film.
Of the unconventional characters in her movies, Bass says: “To a greater and lesser extent they are based on real people, and to some extent on myself. Everything I have observed about other people and myself, I apply to imaginary people.”
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