Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
COCOTE
Synopsis
Alberto, an evangelical gardener, returns to his hometown to attend the funeral of his father, who was killed by an influential man. To mourn the deceased, he is forced to participate to religious celebrations that are contrary to his will and beliefs.
Synopsis
Alberto, an evangelical gardener, returns to his hometown to attend the funeral of his father, who was killed by an influential man. To mourn the deceased, he is forced to participate to religious celebrations that are contrary to his will and beliefs.
Our take
It’s not very often that we encounter Dominican cinema. Cocote is a bewitching revenge thriller, as enigmatic as it is exhilarating, and which subverts dominant paradigms of representation to ultimately reinvent the genre. An outstanding film that exudes Caribbean energy.