Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: Selva trágica
Date: January 01, 2021 to December 31, 2021
Dates Note: 2021
Country of Origin:
Colombia
,
France
,
Mexico
Place of Origin: Mexico, France, Colombia
Languages:
Spanish
,
Maya
,
Creole
Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On:
Additional Info:
Yulene Olaizola’s mystic, minimalist tale of colonialism, greed, and desire takes place in the 1920s, deep in the Mayan jungles between Mexico and what was then British Honduras (now Belize). A young Belizean woman, running from a rich British landowner, becomes the captive of a group of Indigenous laborers, who view her with curiosity, fear, and lust. Is she simply a woman on the run or the beautiful Mayan demon and man-killer Xtabay? Part dream-soaked, crepuscular horror tale, Herzog-ian epic of man vs. nature, and tactile immersion into the environment, Tragic Jungle “engages with indigenous legends and colonial history across a story where misogyny is turned against the patriarchy” (Slant Magazine).