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First published on Wed 5 May 2021 08.00 EDT
This gleefully lurid, picaresque journey through a few days in Cape Town for an alien inhabiting the body of a skeevy junkie named Barry (Gary Green) wonât be everyoneâs cup of tea. But scattered among the gross-out scenes â involving violence or bodily fluids or both, the bouts of softcore shagging, and innumerable garish âtrippyâ bits where the protagonist and his acquaintances do drugs â thereâs actually some reasonably sharply comic, surprisingly touching and straight-up well-acted moments.
Presumably, the key variables are the improvising performers that first-time director Ryan Kruger, fluffing up what was originally a short into feature length, collaborated with for each scene. Some, like Chanelle de Jager, who plays Barryâs longsuffering wife and is given to long profane rants in Afrikaans about Barryâs uselessness, have real acting chops and bring a palpable humanity to the absurdist s