Mexican filmmaker Yulene Olaizola's fifth and most assured feature seduces you away from the legibility of its premise so gradually that you don't realize you've lost your bearings until it's already too late...

But through the alien beauty of its visuals, Andrewin's hidden-waters-run-deep performance, and its increasingly tense atmosphere, Tragic Jungle casts an unsettling spell.

More conceptual than intuitive, Tragic Jungle offers the problem without the passion: a journey into the heart of darkness without the thrill of the unknown.

Tragic Jungle establishes its setting well, and manages to repeatedly set up a foundation of tension throughout the story, but rarely actually delivers on that strong foundation.