Pepe

Pepe

Still from Pepe (2024)
Courtesy of Berlinale © Monte & Culebra

VERDICT: Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias’s fanciful exploration of the inner life of one of Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos is an idiosyncratic affair as piercing and beguiling as it is confounding.

In 2009, Pepe the hippopotamus was shot by hunters in north-western Colombia. Hippos aren’t native
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