Pepe: Estudios de la Imaginación - Parte I

2024 [SPANISH]

Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 64% · 22 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 64%
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 670 670

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Plot summary

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.

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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

If you’ve ever been to Karnak or Luxor

If you’ve ever been to Karnak or Luxor and wandered through the temples, you can easily imagine the sound of the ancient Egyptian deities philosophising in husky tones about mortality as they adopt their animalistic manifestations. One would be a hippo, and though he’s unlikely to have been called “Pepe”, his would be a discourse on this beast’s association with humanity, with his fellow creatures and - somewhat inexplicably, his journey to Colombia where he is now facing army sharpshooters who want to stop him terrorising the locals in the river. The theistic contrast works quite well here because the film itself is an hybrid of drama and natural history film. Set both in Colombia where hippos are not native, and in Namibia where they are more plentiful, we follow two parallel storylines that showcase the beauty and violence of these three ton creatures in their native environments as well as some human melodramatics that, especially in South America, raise a laugh and a grimace in equal measure. We start and conclude in Colombia. The local fishermen are continually complaining to the river inspector about a great monster in their midst, but their stories are so wild and inconsistent that he just think’s they’ve overdone it on the tequila. So, it has to be said, does the wife of the principal complainant. All the while, the film is interspersed with more celestially poetic commentary, in native African languages, from the viewpoint of an hippo who knows that he is not at home, nor where he is supposed to be, nor destined to stay alive for long. Does he wish to lament his fate or embrace it? No, it doesn’t make much sense in any traditional way, but it is oddly compelling for the first hour as we see animals that neither want nor require man’s intervention in their lives or in their habitats. “Pepe” is no threat to anyone so long as he is left in peace, and though we rarely actually see him swimming in the Magdalene river, we can sense a certain benign spirituality from him that is really quite powerful. For some reason, though, we divert from matters hippo to matters human, and though the spatting couple arguing about who saw what is fun, the rest of the people parts are more of a distraction than an asset. There’s one especially long beauty contest where the girls are asked what they would change to improve their territory and what is their dream, but none of them mention "Pepe” or, for that matter, world peace! It’s a bit long and at times is a little too listless, but - and I can’t really explain why - I did find myself drawn into the world of this giant artiodactyl and despite the film's confusing start (beware if you are photo-sensitive), I did quite appreciate it.
Reviewed by diegopagan-55229 10 / 10

A Hippo Ghost Story.

If you mix Eo (2022) and A Ghost Story (2017) you get PEPE.The hybrid Documentary/Drama/Surreal film about the ghost of one of Pablo Escobar's Hippo's narrating how he died. The hippo does not know how he can talk or who he is talking to, but he does so anyways. The ENTIRE movie YOU are the Ghost Hippo's eyes.He sees memories where he wasn't even there.This is why I go to the movies. Give me original stuff, stuff I've never seen before. This is it.The first hour is the best, the second hour gets a bit boring with some humans and a "beauty pagent" scene that goes too long. Then we get the last scene. BEAUTIFUL. EVERY SCENE HERE FEELS LIKE A SCREENSAVER.This movie could have been 90 minutes instead of 120. But I still loved it.
Reviewed by peter0969 9 / 10

Au hasard Pepe

Experimental and mixture of documentary presentation about a hippo seems weird, yet, it successfully creates a beautiful, meditative, and artsy experience of a movie that explores slavery, historical background of the Latin America culture, and dictatorship.Hard to describe such a thing, but it's memorizing and meditative. Captured with gorgeous camerawork, blended themes, and direction, it engages the audience through a slow yet vibrant connection with the story of a hippo and the many things surrounding them. Using interesting filming styles, narration, and dialogue writing, it's poetic style and calmness offers an artful experience.
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