One of the most provocative films of this year's Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, director Jorge Thielen Armand's feverish revenge drama is now Venezuela's submission for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards.
Caro (Asia Argento) travels to Venezuela to sell her late father’s cacao plantation, only to find the family mansion occupied by its former staff, who are determined to remain at all costs. As Caro takes justice into her own hands to claim the inheritance she believes is hers, she sets off a struggle that unearths the violence buried in the land and its memory.
TRT: 104 min
In person: Asia Argento and Jorge Thielen Armand
"Asia Argento is ideally cast as a prickly protagonist in this effective slow-burn thriller." —Stephen Saito, Moveable Fest
"The sheer overpowering nature of the film’s dark mise-en-scène and sound literally and metaphorically rings in the ears." —Olivia Popp, Cineuropa
"This swampy, slow-burn thriller is part-horror and part puzzle, tackling thorny issues of colonialism, race and family legitimacy in original and intriguing style." —Lou Thomas, Sight and Sound
"Successfully accrues tension ahead of its explosive finale, one that pays off the story’s slow boil with an outward spiral of violence brutal enough to stain the soil red, Peckinpah-style." —Isaac Feldberg, RogerEbert.com
"Intriguing and unsettling... the use of sound is [a] tool that Armand employs creatively, with torn fragments of voices and mocking laughter from the past woven into the soundscape, like strips of peeling wallpaper exposing the past underneath." —Wendy Ide, Screen International
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