MBmn
17Dec11
As well as Duras
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Cani
3Dec11
Martel’s masterpiece. It contains what is perhaps the most sensitive placement of people inside the frame. Dialogue is secondary; nowhere is the friction between characters expressed better than on their faces and movements to and away from each other. Cassavetes and Dreyer would have been proud.
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F.B. Elliott
6Aug11
Lo que pasa, lo que no pasa. Lo que se dice, lo que no se dice. Los ruidos, los silencios. Todo es excelente
Pedro Franceschini
1Jun11
So naturalistic and crude! The "absence" of parents reminded me of "Daremo Shiranai", but here it even feels a little worse, beacuse they're actually there. But it is also very interesting, because there is also the other family, and they are not just the opposites, as it seems in the beginning; the movie doesn´t give up the complexity. Really good!
Jerry Johnson
14Feb10
I have never seen a more authentic representation of the country estate getaway in Latin America, of the child/nanny relationship, or of a gaggle of kids. Lucrecia Martel is the Cassavetes/Truffaut of her time and place. She builds her entire narrative on the near-abstraction of faces and bodies (like Cassavetes) all tied up in the tender spaces of Truffaut.
Robert W Peabody III
23Oct09
La Ciénaga 2001 DIR Lucrecia Martel SCR Lucrecia Martel 103 Min Without traditions to support it, an unconscious society pleads for fascism.