Toorbos

Amazing film that transports us to 1930's South Africa, a very different S. Africa from that shown in recent cinema. Not about angry apartheid, but about poor whites living in the forest with gentle blacks. Story plot is like 'Avatar,' about 'tree people', not aliens but inhabitants of the Krysna forest. They were being removed from the forest into council housing which to them, were like brick confinements. What would become of the forest girl Karoliena in the end? It was like reading a book that I could not put down. Breathlessly, I watched the last 20 mins ....

It is a well acted love story too. Karolina meets the well meaning Johannes who tries to reform her. In doing so, he finds his true self again. Finding peace with trees generations old. Sincere acting. Karolina deserves a nod from the urban 'gods' for Best Actress.

Nature is soul restoring as it fills our senses with the very essence of living.