Daniel Giménez Cacho
Don Diego de Zama
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Zama [ˈsama] is a 2017 Argentine period drama film directed by Lucrecia Martel, based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Antonio di Benedetto. [4] It premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. [5] It was also screened in the Masters section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. [6]
Sep 28, 2017 · Zama: Directed by Lucrecia Martel. With Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín. Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.
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Apr 13, 2018 · Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is ...
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Apr 13, 2018 · Zama. In the opening shot of this film, the first work in nine years from the intrepid director Lucrecia Martel, the title character, Don Diego de Zama, stands on a beach, striking, on the sand at low tide, what we can infer he considers a heroic pose. There’s nothing much actually going on; some small craft are at the beach, and nearby ...
Mar 2, 2018 · “Beautiful, hypnotic, mysterious and elliptical”– Manohla Dargis, The New York TimesZama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a ...
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Apr 19, 2018 · The film is set in the late 18th century; Zama is the corregidor (colonial administrator) of some distant province (in the novel it’s specified as part of Paraguay), but he craves a more ...
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Apr 12, 2018 · In “Zama,” colonialism shapes every scene, exchange and body; it is the air that people breathe. Soon after the movie opens, Diego oversees the interrogation of a bound, near-naked prisoner.
