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Zama offers a series of scathingly insightful observations about colonialism and class dynamics -- and satisfyingly ends a long wait between projects from writer-director Lucrecia Martel.
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As an existential objet d'art Zama stands as a serious achievement. But that won't prevent even the most sophisticated of cinephiles from staggering out of the theater, wondering "What in the world did I just see?" February 12, 2020 | Rating: B | Full Review…
As an existential objet d'art Zama stands as a serious achievement. But that won't prevent even the most sophisticated of cinephiles from staggering out of the theater, wondering "What in the world did I just see?"
Ben Croll
This blackly funny-and ultimately haunting-examination of colonial history is thoroughly characteristic in its brilliant manipulation of physical space. January 17, 2019 | Full Review…
This blackly funny-and ultimately haunting-examination of colonial history is thoroughly characteristic in its brilliant manipulation of physical space.
Ben Sachs
Told in the typically oblique style of Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel, this adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto's novel is nonetheless a pointed fable about the futility of colonialism. September 27, 2018 | Full Review…
Told in the typically oblique style of Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel, this adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto's novel is nonetheless a pointed fable about the futility of colonialism.
Jake Wilson
You have to find your own way through Zama, slowed down by the tropical torpor that hangs over the whole film. The pace is languid, the style is cryptic and the mood is downbeat, to say the least. September 26, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
You have to find your own way through Zama, slowed down by the tropical torpor that hangs over the whole film. The pace is languid, the style is cryptic and the mood is downbeat, to say the least.
Sandra Hall
Some movies unfold as dreams; "Zama" dances us playfully toward the edge of nightmare and then asks us to open our eyes. July 5, 2018 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Some movies unfold as dreams; "Zama" dances us playfully toward the edge of nightmare and then asks us to open our eyes.
Ty Burr
Martel has made a woozy epic about the toxicity of torpor. May 25, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Martel has made a woozy epic about the toxicity of torpor.
Charlotte O'Sullivan
Zama is an utterly brilliant film. See it on the big screen if you can. July 17, 2020 | Full Review…
Zama is an utterly brilliant film. See it on the big screen if you can.
Dustin Chang
Zama is that rarest of creative feats: a perfect coupling of literary source material and cinematic sensibility. March 9, 2020 | Full Review…
Zama is that rarest of creative feats: a perfect coupling of literary source material and cinematic sensibility.
Manuel Betancourt
Languishing in a godforsaken, 18th-century South American colony, pining for his family and desperate beyond measure to be gone, magistrate Don Diego de Zama is in fact going precisely nowhere. July 7, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Languishing in a godforsaken, 18th-century South American colony, pining for his family and desperate beyond measure to be gone, magistrate Don Diego de Zama is in fact going precisely nowhere.
Andiee Paviour
Where the coconuts are. June 4, 2019 | Full Review…
Where the coconuts are.
Michael J. Casey
Martel tackles the inherent contradictions of colonialism and its destructive history by subtly tweaking its practitioners with sly humor and a devastating satirical eye. June 3, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Martel tackles the inherent contradictions of colonialism and its destructive history by subtly tweaking its practitioners with sly humor and a devastating satirical eye.
Matthew Lucas
A film that is haunting, baffling, and frustrating in equal measure. February 12, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A film that is haunting, baffling, and frustrating in equal measure.
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