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Zama DVD/Blu-ray/Dowload

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Lucrecia Martel's first film in 10 years premiered in Venice 2017 to huge acclaim.

Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind.

The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit.

It is adapted from Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 classic of Argentine literature, recently published by the New York Review of Books - and available to buy here. New Wave Films also released Lucrecia Martel's previous film, The Headless Woman (La Mujer sin Cabeza).

The DVD and Blu-ray include an exclusive interview with Lucrecia Martel.

Production

Director & screenwriter	Lucrecia Martel
Cinematographer	Rui Poças
Editors	Miguel Schverdfinger, Karen Harley
Sound	Guido Berenblum
Production Designer	Renata Pinheiro
Costume Designer	Julio Suarez
Sound Designer	Guido Berenblum (ASA)
Sound Mixer	Emmanuel Croset
Make-up	Marisa Menta
Hairstyling	Alberto Moccia
Casting	Verónica Souto, Natalia Smirnoff
Assistant Director	Fabiana Tiscornia
Music	Los Indios Tabajaras

Line Producer	Javier Leoz
Executive Producers	Pablo Cruz, Gael García Bernal,
	Diego Luna, Angelisa Stein
Associate Producers	Guillermo Kuitca, Juan Manuel Collado,
	Fabiana Tiscornia, Elvira González Fraga, Alejandro Musich,
	Gonzalo Rodríguez Bubis, Julia Solomonoff
Co-Producers	Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García,
	Marie-Pierre Macia, Claire Gadéa, Juan Pablo Galli,
	Juan Vera, Alejandro Cacetta, Eva Eisenloeffel,
	Leontine Petit, Joost de Vries, Michel Merkt,
	Luís Urbano, Georges Schoucair, Joslyn Barnes,
	Danny Glover, Susan Rockefeller, Juan Perdomo, Natalia Meta
Producers	Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli,
	Matías Roveda, Vania Catani
Co-production Companies	El Deseo, Patagonik, MPM Film, Canana, Lemming Film,
	KNM, O Som e a Fúria, Louverture Films, Schortcut Films,
	Telecine, Bertha Foundation, Perdomo Productions,
	Picnic Producciones, Punta Colorada de Cinema
Production Company	Rei Cine, Bananeira Filmes

CAST

Don Diego de Zama	Daniel Giménez Cacho
Luciana Piñares de Luenga	Lola Dueñas
Vicuña Porto	Matheus Nachtergaele
Ventura Prieto	Juan Minujín
Malemba	Mariana Nunes
Fernandez	Nahuel Cano
Capitan Parrilla	Rafael Spregelburd

2017
Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France, Netherlands,
Mexico, Portugal, USA
115 mins
1:1.78, 2K, 5.1
Certificate 15

★★★★★

'In Lucrecia Martel’s magnificent drama, a Spanish officer stuck at a remote South American outpost numbs his burgeoning panic with erotic reveries…It’s a film that returns Martel to her themes of guilt, sex and shame – her first picture, in fact, since the enigmatic The Headless Woman 10 years ago. But Zama, with its eerie andante tempo and period setting, gives her ideas a new exalted platform, a new theatrical and formal grandeur.'

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

★★★★★

"Martel is back, after a nine-year absence, with the astonishing Zama"

Xan Brooks, The Guardian

"A cinematic marvel."

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

★★★★★

Hard to suppress the hyperbole with this one. Truly an awesome achievement...Lucrecia Martel’s tale of colonial misadventure in South America is one of the great cinematic achievements of the decade.

David Jenkins, Little White Lies

★★★★★

"A beguiling, haunting, comic indictment of the ills of colonialism."

Matthew Anderson, CineVue

★★★★

'Lucrecia Martel’s startling, highly original new feature, Zama...a film that continually surprises us with both its brutality and its lyricism.'

Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent

'Astonishing.'

Ryan Gilbey, The New Statesman

★★★★

'Lucrecia Martel, the single most acclaimed filmmaker of Argentina’s New Wave, and a maker of taxing, sly, formally adventurous cinema not quite like anyone else’s… an absurd, ruthlessly funny take on empire.'

Tim Robey, The Daily Telegraph

'Zama confounds easy interpretation and on my second viewing I feel there’s still much to discover about this sumptuous, emotionally reverberant drama. It’s a thrillingly layered film, and is perhaps best experienced by surrendering to its intoxicating strangeness.'

Ed Lawrenson, The Big Issue

★★★★

Ten years ago Martel made a dreamy thriller called The Headless Woman that made delicate sense of Argentina’s brutal pecking order. She shows the same finesse here. She disorientates us with her sound design, she beguiles us with one of the most evocative soundtracks of the year. Music from Brazilian duo Los Indios Tabajaras playfully reminds us that a tropical paradise is never what it seems…where the film is intentionally vague, the music is precise. Civilisation is corrupt to its core.

Charlotte O'Sullivan, The Standard

★★★★

Martel is more interested in reappraising how we recall colonialism’s on-the-ground failings and the traces of colonial violence that make the film’s indigenous characters (and in one mirage-like scene, a llama) behave in weird, subtle ways, her gaze itself a vivid, drily funny act of decolonisation.

Simran Hans, The Observer

★★★★

'Exhilarating in its rich textures and heady strangeness.'

Edward Porter, The Sunday Times

Lucrecia Martel’s masterly adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 novel maroons Daniel Giménez Cacho’s preening officer of the Spanish empire in an Argentine backwater, then turns the screw.

Maria Delgado, Sight & Sound

"Intoxicating, spellbinding – and one of the best movies of the year…a slow-burn masterpiece."

David Fear, Rolling Stone

"A dizzying, sensory head trip."

Devika Girish, Village Voice

"This isn’t just a movie but a full-on miasma — a humid, atmospheric vision of a complex world conjured from the inside."

Justin Chang, The Los Angeles Times

"Had it been suggested to Di Benedetto in 1976, during his eighteen-month nightmare in the dungeons of state terror, that a ten-year-old girl in Salta would one day transform his first novel into an intoxicating and internationally-acclaimed film that confirmed and magnified its subtlest insights, he might have dismissed the scenario as pure science fiction."

Esther Allen, The New York Review of Books

"The finest film of 2018 so far."

K. Austin Collins, Vanity Fair

"This is one of the most atmospheric and transporting films I've seen all year, and also one of the best."

Justin Chang, National Public Radio

'Lucinda Martel: A Director Who Confounds and Thrills'

J.Hoberman, Interview, The New York Times

"Beautiful, hypnotic, mysterious and elliptical, “Zama” is a story about a man at odds with a world that he struggles to dominate, which becomes a lacerating, often surprisingly comic evisceration of colonialism and patriarchy."

Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

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