JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
Film round-up: August 22, 2024
Gangs, flat champagne, nightmare island and completely cuckoo: the Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews new releases Cadejo Blanco, Widow Clicquot, Blink Twice and Cuckoo

Cadejo Blanco (15)
Directed by Justin Lerner
★★★★
THIS quietly powerful and uber-tense thriller provides a fascinating insight into the workings of gangs in Guatemala.
Written and directed by Justin Lerner, and his first film in Spanish, it follows Sarita (Karen Martinez, Our Mothers) a teenage working-class girl from Guatemala City who travels to Puerto Barrios in search of her missing sister Bea (Pamela Martinez).
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