Barrio Triste might be a companion piece to Un Poeta. The film goes into the cantegriles of Medellin to show life on the other side of the tracks. It opens with the conceit of some kids stealing a camera, which is then used to document life in the cantegril. A bravura sequence shows the kids descending from the cantegril in a beaten-up old car to rob a jewellery store in the centre of town. A serial killer speaks on the radio as the car moves downhill and up through the class barriers. It’s the only time the film leaves the cantegril, where the remaining action plays out with an abstract, woozy indifference to narrative. A car burns, an alien makes an appearance and life in the cantegril goes on all around. It’s part fly-on-the-wall documentary, part street-kid fable, and it doesn’t seem all that surprising to learn that Harmony Korine is named as one of the producers.
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