[In the wake of the Tribeca festival's postponement this year,The Hollywood Reporteris reviewing select fest entries that elected to premiere digitally for critics.] There's plenty of wild and intimate beauty and not a little blood in Kokoloko, the first feature from Gerardo Naranjo since his 2011 international breakout, Miss Bala.
The film reteams the writer-helmer with two actors from that crime thriller, and like the earlier work, this one finds a woman caught in the crosshairs of swaggering, violent machismo.
But from its Academy-ratio frame to its hyperlocal milieu and elliptical-bordering-on-opaque story, it's a film that aims for something rougher, narrower and more personal.
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