Nine years after The Headless Woman, Argentine master Lucrecia Martel returns with this ingenious adaptation of the frenzied first-person novel Zama, brilliantly inserting her own contemporary commentary on masculinity and colonialism. A singular and stupefying, cutting-edge period drama.
Turning to the grounding powers of nature and artistic solidarity, Lucrecia Martel’s documentary short carves a soulful reprieve from the uncertainties of the outside world. Vibrating through the woodlands of Salta, songs of freedom and resistance create a sonic haven against conservative doctrines.
One of cinema’s most talented filmmakers, Lucrecia Martel, brings all her powers of sensual, evocative visuals to this dream-like mystery, which plunges fearlessly into the mindstate of a woman—an incredible María Onetto—on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Nominated for the Palme d’Or.
