Dennis Harvey Film CriticA thread of toxic male lying, cheating, stealing, abandoning and violence connects the scattered pieces director Gian Cassini assembles into the family quilt of “Comala.” Investigating the life of a hitman father killed in 2010, this very personal inquiry doesn’t have much to offer those anticipating a bigger-picture analysis of Mexican criminal syndicates and social inequities lurking in the background.
But it’s a quietly engrossing use of the documentary form to probe issues seemingly passed from one generation to another, leaving children both fatherless and oft-inclined to repeat that missing person’s errors.Known to some as “El Jimmy,” James Oleg Cassini Monarrez was shot to death in a police ambush that may.
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