Zama
DirectorLucrecia Martel
CastsDaniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín, Nahuel Cano, Mariana Nunes, Carlos Defeo, Rafael Spregelburd, Carlos Cano, Jorge Román, Gustavo Böhm, Massamba Seye, Germán De Silva, Vicenzo Navarro Rindel, Dolores Ocampo, Clara Diaz, Juan Pablo Gómez, Paula Grinzpan
Duration115 minutes
GenreDrama, History
Synopsis
Don Diego de Zama, a low level official stationed in a Spanish outpost, cuts a fine figure heroically looking out across the Paraguay River. However, heroic, he is not – in fact, there’s very little to do. Equally ambitious and ineffective, his requests to be promoted and relocated to Buenos Aires only lead to one dead end after another, until his ambition leads him down a strange and intoxicatingly surreal path.
Zama is Lucrecia Martel’s first feature since 2008’s The Headless Woman, itself a precursor to the dreamlike wooziness employed here. It’s also her grandest production to date, co-produced by a huge team including Pedro Almodóvar and Gael García Bernal. The film’s lengthy production culminated in a premiere at the Venice Film Festival, coinciding with Antonio Di Benedetto’s source novel finally being translated into English after 50 years. Both the film and novel have gone on to receive much international acclaim as key works of Argentinian cinema and literature, respectively.
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