Zama (2016)

Directed by

Lucrecia Martel

Genre

drama film

Country

Argentina

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

14

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 178 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Spanish colonial official in 18th century South America waits endlessly for a transfer away from a remote outpost. His obsession with being promoted to a better post leads him through bizarre and humiliating situations.

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What happens

Zama [ˈsama] is a 2017 period drama film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel, based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Antonio di Benedetto. It premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. It was also screened in the Masters section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. On 29 September 2017, the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences chose the film as the national entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards and Best Iberoamerican Film at the 32nd Goya Awards. In 2022, it was selected as the 19th greatest film of Argentine cinema in a poll organized in 2022 by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, which was presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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