Zama
Lucrecia Martel
- 2017
- Argentina, Spain
- Drama
- 1h55mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
At the end of the XVIIIth century, in a colony in Latin America, corregidor Don Diego de Lama is desperately waiting for the viceroy to approve his transfer to Buenos Aires. Torn between exile, frustration and the hunt for a mysterious bandit, his endless wait gradually drives him to madness.
Though Lucrecia Martel sets her story in the 18th century, it remains a mirror of contemporary Argentina. She pursues her exploration of the decadence of the privileged with this series of open air depictions of promiscuities, where an unsettling strangeness is always present, sublimated by an amazing sound design. Like the hero of Buzzati’s The Tartar Steppe, Zama waits for an event that never comes. A contemplative fresco, cruel and sharply ironic, the film paints the portrait of unmoored colonists, incapable of grasping that they themselves are the embodiment of evil.
Screenings
10/09 • 14h15 • Screen 100
Presented by Anna Mouglalis
Credits
- With : Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín, Nahuel Cano...
- Screenplay : Lucrecia Martel based on the novel 'Zama' by Antonio Di Benedetto
- Photography : Rui Poças
- Editing : Karen Harley, Miguel Schverdfinger
- Production : Benjamín Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matias Roveda
