C3 - Friday, September 14, 1984 - North Shore News ERE entertain crt Little crazy prompts lot of talent Humorous South African film YOU PROBABLY have to be a little craz your camera crews in the deadly barren s yo set up of sand called the Kalahari desert in southern Africa and proceed to film a comedy. You probably have to be a More "than crazy to makd such a comedy starring a tiny bushman who carries an empty Coca-Cola bottle around with him. South African director Jamie Uys was- just crazy enough to do both and just brilliant enough to end up with the film called The Gods Must Be Crazy. Filled with straight slapstick comedy, this has got to be one of the funniest films to grace the silver screen in a long time. Uys manages to. shape three separate plots with nothing more than old- fashioned gags like speeded- up cameras and lots of banana skins to slip on. He knits together a satisfying collection of chuckles to make you laugh at his film and at modern man himself. Xao, a bushman (played by himself), is introduced as one of a traditional tribe or family living a= simple, peaceful existence in one of the harshest and forbidding desert areas on the face of the earth. Using a travelogue style of Narration, director Uys Coping through art THIS FALL the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, located in West Vancouver, is offering an art therapy group for children of divorced parents. The group will be held at the Institute in West Van- couver where the children will be given the opportunity to paint and make sculptures of feelings, fears and frustra- tions about their parents’ separation, plus their own feelings of loss. The non-verbal, jpudgmental non- atmosphere enables the children to sym- bolically represent their con- cerns without fear of repercussion. The group will be held Tuesdays from 45:30 p.m. for 12 weeks, starting September 25 to December 11. Cost is $60. For inquiries please call Lois Woolf - 926-9381. In addition to offering art therapy to children and adults, the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute offers a two year post-graduate art therapy training program. By COLIN LAMONT describes the daily life of the bushman of the Kalahari, collecting dew drops _ for water, hooded vipers for food and sharing everything as equal members of a loving family. Never serious for too long, Uys then focuses his cameras on modern man, 600 miles away, arguing, fighting traf- fic, caught in stuffy offices and in general enjoying life in the concrete jungle of the city. Xao and his family are suddenly thrust into” the modern world when a careless god or pilot tosses a Coca-Cola bottle out of his plane when flying over the Kalahari. Xao finds it and assumes that the gods have sent it to his world as a gift. But with the gift comes the burden of ownership to the bushmen and jealousy soon has them fighting over the bottle. Director Uys, himself a white south African, captures the gentle simplicity of Xao, and the beauty of his logic, when he decided to take the bottle and throw it off the . end of the earth. The bushman through a still very wild southern Africa, accepting and greeting a variety of wildlife (including modern man). Determined to rid his sets off CATALOGUE SALES CATALOGUE SALES CATALOGUE S UP TO Ww rr ond 4 77) ous — oO o wl