In the most startling scene in `Zola,` Janicza Bravo´s gleefully amoral firecracker of a movie, two young strippers conspire to make $8,000 over a single night in a Florida hotel suite. Zola (Taylour Paige), the brains of the operation, urges Stefani (Riley Keough), a prostitute, to up her rates to $500 a pop. The trick-turning montage that follows is a jaw-dropper, not only for the many shapes and sizes of male genitalia on display, but also for the range and variety of Bravo´s visual tricks, some of which - a scrolling image feed, a heart-shaped `like` button - mimic the interface of Instagram. With its mix of insouciant form and outrageous content, `Zola` got the Sundance Film Festival´s...
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