The Endless River

Who is perpetrator, who is victim in this sweltering tragic drama set in the South-African town of Riviersonderend (Endless River)? Percy is released from prison after serving a four-year sentence and has the best intentions. Yet it is difficult to start with a clean slate. His wife Tiny has faithfully waited for him, but renewed happiness fails to materialise. At the diner Tiny works at, she enjoys an innocent flirt with French expat Gilles. It might have remained at that, if Gilles’s family hadn’t been massacred by burglars and a desperate policeman hadn’t marked Percy as a possible suspect.
A soberly staged, charged tragedy develops, with a metaphoric undertone and classic touch. With more emphasis on actors than on plot we see how the timid Tiny and the egocentric Gilles, torn by grief and anger, are driven toward each other. Two opposite natures who form an unlikely alliance and try to overcome their pain.