Zama

Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel’s adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s novel exposes the fetid rot of Eurocentrism that festers in empire strongholds.

...an audacious and antic tale set in a 18th-century colony on the Asuncion coast.

...a waking nightmare that is part existential paralysis, part erotic reverie.

...a mordantly funny and relentlessly modernist critique of colonialism that makes no conclusions, ultimately resting on a scene of verdant nature not entirely stained by humanity.

Med en unik og dristig stil skaber den argentinske instruktør et portræt, der er mindst lige så dragende og mættet, som det er frustrerende og komplekst.