Movie

Pepe

2024 · 122 min

A strange, drifting ghost's monologue that folds folklore, history and sound into a hypnotic, disorienting experience you have to surrender to.

Overview: A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn’t understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.
How it feels: Eerie, melancholic, absurd and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Death, memory, colonialism, identity
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: death
memory
colonialism
identity
violence
Places: wilderness
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild