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Cocote
2017
Synopsis
In the Dominican Republic, Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener, returns home to attend his father’s funeral. Upon discovering that a powerful local figure is responsible for his father’s death, Alberto realizes that his family has summoned him to avenge the murder.
Editorial
A bewitching revenge thriller, Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’s Locarno prizewinner is as mystical as it is exhilarating. Subverting dominant paradigms of representation to reinvent the genre, Cocote shifts between realist and hallucinatory images, evoking the dizzying torment of broken filiality.