Film
Zama
- Director
- Lucrecia Martel
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 115 mins
Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel‘s first feature since the very-much-an-acquired-taste The Headless Woman a decade ago should be approached with due caution by the uninitiated. It’s adapted from an existential novel by fellow Argentinean Antonio di Benedetto and follows the disintegration of a Spanish officer in an 18th century colony on the Asuncion coast, whose repeated pleas for a transfer are rebuffed.
As with Martel’s earlier films, this is best enjoyed by those seeking a sensory experience rather than a conventional narrative. Even critics who’ve raved about it have deployed such qualifying phrases as “confusing and heavy”, “sometimes almost stultifying” and “admittedly prone to the occasional longueur”.
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