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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- Lucrecia Martel
- 2017-09-28
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 ...
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.
- Lucrecia Martel
Apr 20, 2018 · At the start of Lucrecia Martel’s Zama—the finest film of 2018 so far—Don Diego de Zama, a functionary of the Spanish empire, stares out from an unnamed shore at an indefinite horizon.The ...
- K. Austin Collins
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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Zama. Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, ZAMA tells the story of an officer of the Spanish Crown stuck in the new world trying against all odds to return to a life he recognizes. This is the new film from acclaimed director Lucrecia Martel (THE HEADLESS WOMAN, LA CIENAGA). 120 IMDb 6.7 1 h 55 min 2018. X-Ray 18+.
