A riotous horror-tinged romp starring a runaway buffalo, there's no other contender for the 2021 best international film Oscar quite like India's submission,Jallikattu, directed by Malayalam cinema maverick Lijo Jose Pellissery.
The 90-minute movie's galloping plot couldn't be simpler: a bull escapes from a slaughterhouse in a remote Indian village and all of the menfolk gather to chase it down.
But the escalating bedlam that ensues defies easy summary, as does the blunt but multivalent allegory at the center of the tale.
The wild bull indeed lays waste to much of the village, but not before Pellissery has more mercilessly skewered the male ego, small-town social conventions and the crazed savagery lurking in the hearts of humans..
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