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Product Description The release of Lucrecia Martel’s La ciénaga heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of amazing tactility and one of the great contemporary film debuts. Review The release of Lucrecia Martel’s La ciénaga heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of amazing tactility and one of the great contemporary film debuts.

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Product Description In 18th-century colonial Paraguay, local-born administrative functionary Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho) dutifully and pompously serves the will of the Spanish Empire and dreams of his advancement to a more prestigious post. Cunning coworkers and humbling fate, however, will assure that the better life he seeks stays out of his reach. Lucrecia Martel's take on the Antonio di Benedetto novel co-stars Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín. 115 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Spanish; Subtitles: English. In Spanish with English subtitles. Review Beautiful, hypnotic, mysterious and elliptical --Manohla Dargis, The New York Times While Zama represents a new frontier for Martel, it also continues and even deepens her singular, allusive approach to class, gender, race, and place, as well as still more cryptic notions of destiny and vocation --Film Comment 4 out of 4 Stars! How strange and apt that the year's most sensorially and ideologically dense film is also a comedy of macroaggressions --Slant Magazine