A religious man returns to his rural village home after his father's murder in Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias' crime drama 'Cocote.' By Frank Scheck Style defiantly trumps content in Nelson Carlo de ...
Cocote is as clear as day and as bewildering as a nightmare, as chaotic as a whirlwind and as calm as the Caribbean Sea. It’s the last of these that intermittently serves as the backdrop for Nelson ...
Nelson Carlo de Los Santos' film premiered in Toronto, and won the best film award in the Signs of Life section of the Locarno film festival. By Agustin Mango The Dominican Republic’s film commission, ...
One of the most striking elements of Santo Domingo-born Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias’ “Cocote,” a story of loss, religion and family ties, is the tension between its art-film ambitions and freely ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Getting to grips with Cocote, which has won praise and prizes, is like getting to grips with the prolix name of its ...
Some religious mumbo jumbo prattled over a white screen. A vaguely apocalyptic image, in smudgy black-and-white, of billowing smoke. A blindingly bright color shot of a swanky pool on a lavish estate ...
Fans of fierce, challenging indigenous cinema rejoice. It’s not every day that you see a film from and depicting the life in the Dominican Republic, let alone one as intriguing as Cocote.
Grasshopper Film has acquired all US rights to Cocote, the crime drama set in the Dominican Republic from director Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias. Cocote will receive a theatrical release next year, ...
It arrives in theaters on July 27. After making the festival rounds at Locarno, Toronto, and New Directors/New Films, “Cocote” finally gets a theatrical release. Nelson Carlo De Los Santos’ crime ...
It’s not a problem that “Cocote” is a fevered art film, but the movie is slipshod arty — a lurching, fragmentary tone poem that relies on too much patching together in the editing room. Yet a handful ...
Some religious mumbo jumbo prattled over a white screen. A vaguely apocalyptic image, in smudgy black-and-white, of billowing smoke. A blindingly bright color shot of a swanky pool on a lavish estate ...
A tale of revenge from the Dominican Republic has an avant dazzle that overwhelms the usual righteous simplicities — and, too often, the story. Dramas of revenge always make it look so easy. The hero, ...
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