‘Pepe’ Review: An Opaque, Experimental Odyssey Through the Afterlife Consciousness of a ‘Cocaine Hippo’
Jessica Kiang As with so much, you can blame Pablo Escobar. Following the druglord’s 1993 death, the exotic animals that populated the menagerie at his sprawling Hacienda Nápoles estate faced an uncertain future. Many were sent to zoos, but the hippos remained – although not indigenous to the Americas, they were thriving in Colombia.