Cannes Review: Ariel Escalante Meza’s ‘Domingo And The Mist’

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A widower is threatened by land developers in Domingo And The Mist, the Un Certain Regard drama from director Ariel Escalante Meza.

The Costa Rican film is a slow-burning comment on corruption pierced with a tinge of magical realism.We first meet Domingo (Carlos Ureña) when he is walking slowly up a hill past his neighbor’s house.

We follow him walking, and hear the woman having a conversation with a polite but persistent man who has knocked on her door.

She’s unwilling to let him in the house; he offers to wait for her son to come home; she eventually relents and lets him in.