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Zama DVD/Blu-ray/Online
A film by Lucrecia Martel
Synopsis
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.
Where It's On
Trailer
Director — Lucrecia Martel
Filmography
2018: Zama
2007: The Headless Woman (La Mujer sin Cabeza)
2004: The Holy Girl (La Niña Santa)
2001: The Swamp (La Ciénaga)
1995: Rey Muerto, short
Cast & Credits
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Director & screenwriter |
Lucrecia Martel |
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Cinematographer |
Rui Poças |
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Editors |
Miguel Schverdfinger, Karen Harley |
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Sound |
Guido Berenblum |
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Production Designer |
Renata Pinheiro |
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Costume Designer |
Julio Suarez |
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Sound Designer |
Guido Berenblum (ASA) |
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Sound Mixer |
Emmanuel Croset |
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Make-up |
Marisa Menta |
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Hairstyling |
Alberto Moccia |
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Casting |
Verónica Souto, Natalia Smirnoff |
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Assistant Director |
Fabiana Tiscornia |
| Music | Los Indios Tabajaras |
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Line Producer |
Javier Leoz |
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Executive Producers |
Pablo Cruz, Gael García Bernal, |
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Diego Luna, Angelisa Stein |
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Associate Producers |
Guillermo Kuitca, Juan Manuel Collado, |
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Fabiana Tiscornia, Elvira González Fraga, Alejandro Musich, |
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Gonzalo Rodríguez Bubis, Julia Solomonoff |
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Co-Producers |
Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, Esther García, |
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Marie-Pierre Macia, Claire Gadéa, Juan Pablo Galli, |
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Juan Vera, Alejandro Cacetta, Eva Eisenloeffel, |
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Leontine Petit, Joost de Vries, Michel Merkt, |
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Luís Urbano, Georges Schoucair, Joslyn Barnes, |
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Danny Glover, Susan Rockefeller, Juan Perdomo, Natalia Meta |
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Producers |
Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, |
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Matías Roveda, Vania Catani |
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Co-production Companies |
El Deseo, Patagonik, MPM Film, Canana, Lemming Film, |
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KNM, O Som e a Fúria, Louverture Films, Schortcut Films, |
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Telecine, Bertha Foundation, Perdomo Productions, |
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Picnic Producciones, Punta Colorada de Cinema |
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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 |
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2017 |
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Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France, Netherlands, |
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Mexico, Portugal, USA |
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115 mins |
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1:1.78, 2K, 5.1 |
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| Certificate 15 |
The Critics
'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
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, 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.
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
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 TimesLinks
Download set of 8 photos
Download UK quad poster high res jpg
Trailer: Download Pro Res version
Trailer on Vimeo (mp4 can be downloaded), on YouTube (can be embedded)
New interview with Lucrecia Martel in The New York Times
Interviews with Lucrecia Martel in the Huffington Post, Film Comment, Mubi Notebook
Interview with Lucrecia Martel in The New York Times
Article on Zama the book and the film by Esther Allen (translator of the book)in the New York Review of Books
Interview with Lucrecia Martel by E. Nina Rothe
Location interview with Lucrecia Martel from Sight & Sound
Article on Lucrecia Martel in Vogue (US)
Dennis Lim on Lucrecia Martel
Article on Lucrecia Martel in Artforum
Bookings & Press
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