#SAFilmReel September 2016: Suhana Gordhan picks Greg Rom's Noodles

In Noodles, an anxious and penniless woman discovers a bizarre way to get herself out of financial trouble. However, the solution that leads her to success soon becomes her dark burden. See below:

Gordhan says “You know you’ve watched something good when it changes something in your world. And what Noodles by Greg Rom of Gentlemen Films changed for me is the way I will approach a bowl of noodles for the rest of my noodle eating time on this planet. “Oh my God, I’m going to eat the gushy, evil tears of a depressed woman,” I will think, as I slurp up those stringy, sticky bits of yum that slap my cheeks on either side. “Noodles” is a bit of bizarre and dark and funny and poignant and that’s why I love it. Greg Rom’s picture manages to capture the strangest, yet most provocative angle on our emotions and the sick way we indulge them. He tells without overtelling and rewards without giving you everything at once. It’s Ew. And Wow. And that’s what a good piece of film needs – your own emotions to have it out and leave you feeling a little weird and wooed at the same time.”

Special mentions for the month also went to:

• A Good Drowning for the Surf Shack by Shane Knock of 7Films;
• My Moments for Absa by Dani Hynes at Egg Films;
• Minerva’s Lilies by Amirah Tajdin at Casimir; and
• Banana Brain for Die Antwoord directed by Terence Neale at Egg Films and edited by Saki Bergh at Left Post Productions.

Click here for more on Gordhan’s recent appointment as chairperson of the Loeries and here for a reminder of our investigation into what’s really going on behind her selfie.