“Marigolds in August is the third film on which the famous playwright, Athol Fugard, and director Ross Devenish have worked together. The others were Boesman and Lena and The Guest, which have won international prizes at various film festivals. Fugard considers this film as part of a trilogy, each focusing on an important dimension of South African realities, specifically the colored (mixed race) people, the Afrikaaner, and, in Marigolds in August, the African. Fugard is a literary pioneer in dramatizing the interracial struggle against apartheid.... This film is set in and around a small seaside holiday hamlet, for white South Africans only, called Schoenmakerskop. It is an area of high black unemployment, with as many as one in five workers jobless. As a result, malnutrition and infant mortality are rampant.... The moral dilemma the film presents is acted out with tremendous power and a mixture of anguish and occasional humor. Marigolds in August is a filmic metaphor in which South African lives flourish out of touch with the seasons, hoping to survive in an unnatural habitat of indifferences.” --Albert Johnson