The South African filmmaker, who is mixed race, takes a scathing look at institutional racism and homophobia in his Afrikaans-language drama, which bows in the U.S. today. By Scott Roxborough Europe ...
The director and star Josh O'Connor spoke with IndieWire at the film's New York City premiere. Early buzz of the film teased hot and steamy sex scenes between the co-stars. However, following its ...
“We’re nothing without the poignancy and the importance of writing,” Oliver Hermanus says of directors as we sit down to discuss his new film, The History of Sound, which follows Paul Mescal as Lionel ...
In Oliver Hermanus’s Cannes Competition film The History of Sound, Paul Mescal stars as Lionel, a Kentucky-born singer who connects with composition student David (Josh O’Connor) and forms a bond that ...
When most of us think Hermanus, we only think whales. Wrong – because although it is a famous whale-watching destination, which sees foreigners and South Africans flocking here in the winter, this ...
In what can only be described as civil war-like conditions, a police station was partially burnt in Hermanus and a tense standoff between police and "land-invaders" continues to escalate. The incident ...
It may be the tourist capital of whales and wine, but the Western Cape town of Hermanus has had a tough three years. Before Covid arrived, this Whale Coast town was rocked by service delivery protests ...
Through the pixelated image, Oliver Hermanus wears a relaxed smile. His voice is slightly delayed, but we quickly get the hang of what is now very much the norm in a Covid climate. He is sitting at ...