Sunset over Loxton

I have never been to Loxton, or indeed anywhere in South Africa. I discovered the town through Blood Safari, a crime novel of Deon Meyer. I blogged about it here. I am reading at the moment Thirteen Hours, so I thought about Loxton, even though the novel is not set there. I also remembered Meyer shot a movie in Loxton, and he had taken a lot of pictures and uploaded them on his Facebook page. A lot of beautiful pictures. So I shamelessly downloaded one to put here on Vraie Fiction. The most picturesque I could find. I don't like to share pictures I did not take myself (or at least a member of my family), but the town of Loxton has fascinated me since I started reading about it that I had decided to upload it. Its name is kind of banal, yet it looks so genuinely exotic, a small town in the middle of nowhere, at the edge of the world, on the other side of the world. So yes, I decided to upload this picture. In the end, it is a beautiful sunset.

Die Laaste Tango

This may sound strange, but I am going to plug a movie that I have not seen and I have little chances to find here in the UK. Or indeed elsewhere. I am talking about Die Laaste Tango, the first movie directed by South African crime writer Deon Meyer. I have been following the shooting through the author/director's page on Facebook.It was released Thursday the 20th. The story is both a crime thriller and a tragedy, about a cop hunted by a serial killer he once beat up to an inch of his life and a woman dying of cancer. You can read more about it here. All fan interest aside, this is a fascinating starting point. And then I watched the trailer and I was sold. Like in the novels of Meyer, gruesome violence mixes lives alongside tenderness. Of course I cannot say if a movie will be great from a mere trailer, but we might have a at least a very solid film here, a thriller with soul. Have a look at the trailer and see what you think: