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Zama
Directed by
Lucrecia Martel
Produced by Vânia Catani, Benjamín Doménech, Santiago Gallelli, and Matias Roveda
Screenplay by Lucrecia Martel
Produced by Vânia Catani, Benjamín Doménech, Santiago Gallelli, and Matias Roveda
Screenplay by Lucrecia Martel
With:
Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín, Nahuel Cano, Mariana Nunes, Daniel Veronese, Carlos Defeo, and Rafael Spregelburd
Cinematography:
Rui Poças
Editing: Miguel Schverdfinger and Karen Harley
Editing: Miguel Schverdfinger and Karen Harley
Runtime:
115 min
Release Date: 28 September 2017
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 28 September 2017
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
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Lucrecia Martel's surreal satire of Spanish colonialism advances its narrative and thematic points in austere, muted, sometimes off-camera ways. Daniel Giménez Cacho captivates as a powerless bureaucrat as trapped by a mad system as he is a perpetuator of it.