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The Michigan Daily

Wednesday, April 12, 1989

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Voices finally

heard

Film lets Black South
BY ALYSSA KATZ
BLACK South Africa has been almost invisible at
the movies. The only two mainstream films dealing
with the beleaguered country, Cry Freedom and A
World Apart, dwell primarily on the lives of white
South Africans. This is not to condemn these other
films; one cannot expect a Western director to under-
stand what life is like for Black South Africans, who
are unable to tell their own story cinematically. As
the revealing documentary Voices of Sarafina! points
out, most Black South Africans are essentially barred
from high school, not to mention film school.
Voices of Sarafina! lets Black South Africans
speak for themselves. Some very special, yet seem-
ingly typical, Black teenagers from South Africa have
come to New York to star in Sarafina!, a hit Broad-
way musical about the 1976 student uprising in
Soweto. Nigel Noble, the director of this documen-
tary, arranges his material effectively: by intercutting
scenes from Sarafina! with informative and often
moving testimonials from the young performers, he
gives the material from the show added depth. The
teenagers constantly smile onstage, even when the
scenario turns tragic; we learn from the interviews
that Black South Africans often smile when con-
fronted with trouble, because they feel that, since
crying doesn't solve any of their problems, they
might as well smile.
The excerpts from the show are fun and nicely
filmed - Noble's camera is placed directly on the
stage, creating a sense of intimacy with the perform-
ers. Seen up close, as they theatrically exaggerate
their gestures and heavily accented diction, their en-

Africa speak for itself
thusiastic energy is impressive. The music, composed
by Mbongeni Ngema and Hugh Masekela, is strong
and well-sung.
But the real strength of Voices of Sarafina! lies in
its depiction of the actors' offstage lives. In the film's
most powerful moment, exiled South African singer
Miriam Makeba meets the performers backstage. As
they sing a freedom song, some of them embrace her,
some cry. This scene brings up a surprising issue:
several of the performers reveal that they're homesick,
that they love South Africa and want to return to help
make it a better place. And they are upset by the fact
that Makeba can never go back.
Still, the performers speak with sorrow about life
back home. One girl talks about the night her brother
came home with gunshot wounds caused by the po-
lice; another says that her father was beaten because
the police assumed, despite evidence to the contrary,
that he was driving a stolen car. Others speak of their
fear of their police-patrolled schools.
Stylistically, Voices of Sarafina! is imperfect.
Some scenes, notably a classroom discussion of re-
cent South African history, are obviously staged,
presented only for purpose of educating the film's au-
dience. Such scenes are informative, but awkward.
And at a couple of points in the film, footage depict-
ing daily life in South Africa is shown, which, al-
though revealing, is not well-integrated
Overall, though, Voices of Sarafina! is worth-
while. An enlightening and entertaining look at some
very difficult issues, it lets Black South Africans
speak for themselves.
VOIbCS OF SARAFINA! is now showing at the
Michigan Theater.

Sleeping in Flame
By Jonathan Carroll
Doubleday Hardcover/$17.95
It takes Jonathan Carroll 83 pages to begin the
telling of his story, Sleeping in Flame, but once he fi-
nally makes that leap, he has quite a story to tell -
about magic, former lives and Grimm storybook char-
acters who are not fictional.
His main character, Walker Easterling, is an actor
whose work allows him to spend most of his time in
Vienna, with an occasional trip to California. He meets
and instantly falls in love with Maris York, a model
who builds elaborate cities with LEGO sets in her
spare time and has showings of them at the best art
galleries around.
After mucking through pages of awkward dialogue,
finding out whQ knew who and how, and creating char-
acters only to have them killed off before the story be-
gins, Carroll finally gets to the point. Strange things
are happening to and around Walker.
The beginnings of unexplainable phenomena coin-
cide with the forming of his relationship with Maris.
An ugly old man on a bicycle greets Walker in pass-
ing, calling him Rednaxela. Walker doesn't think any-
thing of it until a few days later when, while examin-
ing a gravestone that Maris directed him to find, two
old women call out to him, "Guten Tag, Herr Rednax-
ela.... It took you a long time to get here."
On confronting them, the women tell Walker that
it's his job to find out what's happening to him. And
the tombstone he went to see contains the photograph
of a man who looks exactly like Walker. The man,
Moritz Benedict, died 30 years prior.
The dialogue doesn't become any less awkward, but

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from this point on, it doesn't matter. Carroll creates
fascinating scenes of magic and unexplainable occu-
rances that keep one reading with interest. The appear-
See Flame, Page 8

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