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Good Madam
Directed by
Jenna Cato Bass
NR
2021
1h 32m
Horror
,
Drama
5.2
84%
42%
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A strange psychological thriller about Tsidi, who is forced to move in with her separated mother, a domestic worker who obsessively cares for her catatonic white "Madame" in the wealthy suburbs of Cape Town.
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Cast of Good Madam
Chumisa Cosa
Tsidi / Writer
Nosipho Mtebe
Mavis / Writer
Kamvalethu Jonas Raziya
Winnie / Writer
Sanda Shandu
Stuart / Writer
Khanyiso Kenqa
Luthando / Writer
Sizwe Ginger Lubengu
Siphenathi / Writer
Siya Sikawuti
Toto / Writer
Chris Gxalaba
Malume Mthunzi / Writer
Peggy Tunyiswa
Xoliswa / Writer
Babalwa Baartman
Voice Artist / Writer / Producer
Uzile Bam
Xoliswa's Son
Jennifer Boraine
Madam
Jacques de Villiers
Voice Artist
Steve Larter
Grant / Writer
Sindiwe Magona
Voice Artist
Awonke Mgushelwa
Skipping Girl
Francesca Varrie Michel
Jogger
Madosini Latozi Mpahleni
Grandmother's Voice
Sisipho Nukuna
Skipping Girl
Verity Price
Young Madam
Liza Scholtz
Anna
Felix Seuffert
Background Artist
Maya Seuffert
Background Artist
Otto Seuffert
Background Artist
Anna Telford
Background Artist
Jenna Cato Bass
Director / Writer / Producer
Samantha Jennings
Producer
Kristina Ceyton
Producer
Good Madam Ratings & Reviews
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
"Good Mother" rattles not with gore but with the weight of history and injustice.
ScullyVision
Dan Scully
The imagery and soundscape create a spell that's easy to fall under, even if it doesn't come together as well as it wants to.
Orca Sound
Carey-Ann Pawsey
Social commentary and horror and not two easy genres to mesh. Throw in generational trauma and you got a lot. A lot of balls to juggle. Lots of them hit the ground hard here.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Striking in a more tersely controlled, slow-burn mode...
Los Angeles Times
Noel Murray
Doesn't shy away from magic spells and arcane African blood rituals, but the real dark mojo that Bass is bringing so starkly to the big screen involves the cycles of privilege and exclusion that seems to persist through every attempt at exorcism.
Everything is Horrible (Substack)
Noah Berlatsky
The Good Madam is about how power can turn even love into a box of fear and death.
CBR
Josh Bell
The horror works as a metaphor for the lingering effects of apartheid, but it's also entirely satisfying on its own.
In Review Online
Steven Warner
Director Jenna Cato Bass uses a familiar genre framework to spin a powerful allegorical tale whose devastating effects linger long after the end credits roll.
Common Sense Media
Brian Costello
The movie keeps hinting at actual scares, but none are forthcoming. It's a disappointing experience, because there's a lingering sense that this should be better than it is.
Paste Magazine
Matt Donato
Good Madam represents the past, present and future as forever changed by apartheid-light on shivers, heavy on context.
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
Jenna Cato Bass has crafted her own Apartheid spin on Jordan Peele's "Get Out," with a new, delicious twist.
Eye for Film
Jennie Kermode
Jenna Cato Bass' tight, unnerving thriller creates a landscape of small signals.
Tilt Magazine
Christopher Cross
Jenna Cato Basss psychological thriller turns a place of comfort into a nightmare, poring through decades of oppression and trauma to manifest a permanent, lingering evil.
Le Noir Auteur
Terence Johnson
Good Madam has an out of this world sound design, which is used to creepy and chilling effect at every turn. This South African horror film is 92 minutes of nerves.
Hyperallergic
Jourdain Searles
A reckoning both for Bass and for all the clueless white children who never thought about the Black women who served them at the expense of their own lives.
My New Plaid Pants
Jason Adams
A good movie about bad madams and how the horrors of the past echo across the present flesh. Very much recommended
Variety
Guy Lodge
Matching familiar genre tropes to a particular national malaise, it pulls off a fine balance of universal resonance and cultural specificity.
RogerEbert.com
Marya E. Gates
Despite the film's almost entirely Black cast, it's hard to forget there is a white woman at the helm, attempting to unpack weighty racial themes that do not feel hers to explore.
AWFJ.org
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Mlungu Wam is a masterclass in how horror can speak to race and inequality, set in a world of servitude presented as a terrifying, powerful and unrelentingly enduring mode of postcolonial possession
Bloody Disgusting
Meagan Navarro
A slow build of psychological and supernatural horror that sometimes confuses but always engages.
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