![]() The flinty oldster’s initial hostility to this emphatically urban youth he’s never previously met quickly and very predictably melts. Lacking any real alternative, he seeks out the man he believes to be his only living relative, located a long bus-ride away. ![]() This bond blossoms during the rural interlude that forms the screenplay’s second act: having fallen foul of his landlady and associated local street-gangs, perennially cash-strapped and work-shy Tato must lay low. Starring newcomer Bryan Córdoba as a slackerish 17-year-old forced to grow up fast after the death of his mother, it premieres at Miami and should enjoy wider international exposure than Rincón’s soccer-themed Hero Steps (2014) which also bowed at the Florida festival.Īn atmospheric youth-focused character studyĭedicated to the director’s own late grandfather, the picture has at its heart the tender relationship between stringy Fabián -nicknamed Tato (Córdoba) - and his elderly grandfather Octávio (Óscar Atehortúa). The notoriously mean streets of Colombia’s second metropolis Medellín provide a vivid principal backdrop for The City Of Wild Beasts , an atmospheric youth-focused character study from local writer-director Henry E Rincón. ![]()
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