Though at times tasteless and barely coherent, the story is oddly affecting, the very strangeness of Nyholm’s folkloric vision and its unnerving execution pulling you in.
The film mixes horror elements with surreal fantasy and the crushing realism of a serious family drama. It’s metaphorical, vague but also precise in its specificity for the horrific trials these people are to face — their personal hell.
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Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Nothing hinders surrealism more than the sense that its creators are actively working for it, though Koko-di Koko-da is nonetheless difficult to dismiss.
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RogerEbert.comGlenn Kenny
RogerEbert.comGlenn Kenny
It certainly doesn’t help that Tobias and Elin are entirely banal characters with nothing to define them but their loss.