Zama
Lucrecia Martel / AR, ES, FR, NL, 2017 / 115 min.
Don Diego de Zama hopes to be relocated to Buenos Aires. But the emissary of the Spanish crown in the South-American colony Asunción appears to have been totally forgotten. Zama gradually loses his grip on reality in the infernal heat of the jungle. Winner of the KNF award at the IFFR and selected for the major film festivals: Lucrecia de Martel’s film was warmly embraced.
‘As if blown in from another world’, is what a Guardian reviewer wrote after watching Zama at the Venice film festival. The international co-production is indeed unusual in more than one respect. Lucrecia Martel based herself on a novel by Antonio Di Benedetto but was not really interested in presenting a historical setting or tamely following the plot.
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Director
Lucrecia Martel
Production year
2017
Country
AR, ES, FR, NL
Original title
Zama
Length
115 min.
Language
Guaraní, Spanish, Portuguese
Subtitles
NLD
Format
DCP
Part of
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