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By Luis M (377) on 24 Aug 2018

Zama, a profound period drama based on a celebrated Argentinian novel, maps out a dream-like exploration of social status, race, gender, and…

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By Graeme Tuckett (166) for Stuff.co.nz (387) on 20 Aug 2018

Ama is a unique, mischievous and gorgeously clever piece of work, almost worth the nine-year wait between director Lucrecia Martel's last film…

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By Ruben Rosario (87) for MiamiArtZine (72) on 20 Aug 2018

Just know that you are entering no man's land the moment you set foot in the theater…

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By Susan R (273) on 12 Aug 2018

Here's another instance where I saw a completely different movie than what every other critic did…

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By A.s. Hamrah (129) for n+1 (116) on 26 Jul 2018

Zama is elliptical, violent, and lush, like the other two, with the same mournful, deadpan approach to dismantling the pretensions and fantasies…

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By Sarah Ward (538) for Concrete Playground (635) on 18 Jul 2018

Nine years since making her last feature, Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel returns with an effort that matches her reputation: mythic…

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By Carlos M (2,069) on 17 Jul 2018

Those who have seen The Headless Woman will be able to identify Martel's recurring themes and symbolism in this one as well, but while they…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for The ARTery (128) on 10 Jul 2018

An absurdist folly pitched somewhere between Joseph Conrad and Samuel Beckett…

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By Katie Goh (11) for The Skinny (809) on 26 Jun 2018

Martel masterfully creates a vivid, sensuous, and unbearable world from which Zama and the audience can't wait to escape…

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By Judy E (7) on 17 Jun 2018

This was a beautiful movie on many levels. Although set in colonial times, the human struggles and weaknesses portrayed are timeless…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 07 Jun 2018

Textured, slow-burning and hypnotic, the most resolutely arthouse release since Hard to Be a God unfolds as a fever dream…

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By Alan Zilberman (171) for Brightest Young Things (103) on 07 Jun 2018

This is the sort of comedy that's not exactly funny. Its points are too angry - and dispassionately argued - to be a laugh riot…

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By Edward Lawrenson (138) for The Big Issue (129) on 04 Jun 2018

It's a thrillingly layered film, and is perhaps best experienced by surrendering to its intoxicating strangeness…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 28 May 2018

The film might be a touch pretentious, but it is exhilarating in its rich textures and heady strangeness…

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By Hilary A White (243) for Sunday Independent (Ireland) (504) on 28 May 2018

Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel is in spellbinding form in her first film in eight years…

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By Maria M. Delgado (4) for Sight and Sound (827) on 26 May 2018

A beguiling cinematic journey through identity formation in Latin America…

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By Charlotte O'sullivan (637) for London Evening Standard (2,015) on 24 May 2018

Martel has made a woozy epic about the toxicity of torpor…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 24 May 2018

Almost too well, and certainly too well to let us sit back comfortably, Martel has nailed colonialism as a living death…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 23 May 2018

Zama is a story that obviously has something of Beckett and Kafka, but creates worryingly plausible real-world evocations of their cosmic loneliness…

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By Geoffrey Macnab (1,253) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 22 May 2018

In adapting Antonio di Benedetto's 1956 novel for the screen, writer-director [Lucrecia] Martel offers a very different perspective on the…

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