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Zama

2017

Lucrecia Martel

Daniel Giménez Cacho, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín, Lola Dueñas ...

6.1

2,183

Drama 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Perplexing and intoxicating in equal measure (...) It honors Di Benedetto’s work by strictly cinematic means, and to formally mesmerizing effect"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Some no doubt will find the film (...) intoxicating (...) For others, the director's disdain for explication will make 'Zama' a maddening bore (...) Martel makes inventive use of sometimes anachronistic sound and music effects"	NEU
United States	Ben Croll IndieWire	"As an existential 'objet d’art' 'Zama' stands as a serious achievement. But that won’t prevent even the most sophisticated of cinephiles from staggering out of the theater, wondering 'What in the world did I just see?'"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"'Zama' is a difficult film. But if you find a way to crack open its forbidding, austere exterior, there is treasure to be found, or at least something that sparkles, beautiful and cruel"	POS
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"A strange, sensual wonder (...) This fabulous film is full of so many odd scenes – and some of these scenes are very funny as well (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Martel casually depicts the slavery and brutal mistreatment of the era in ways that resound (...) Concluding sequences are almost unreal, but visually transfixing."	POS

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