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La Ciénaga

La Ciénaga

2001, Movie, 1h 41min

The release of Lucrecia Martel’s LA CIÉNAGA heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a dissolute bourgeois extended family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways that political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of extraordinary tactility, and one of the great contemporary film debuts.

Country: France,Spain,Argentina

Director:

Lucrecia Martel

Cast:

Daniel Valenzuela,

Mercedes Morán,

Graciela Borges,

Martín Adjemián

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6.0

Reviews

Critic Marrit Ingman

rated

6

...doesn't necessarily make for a crowdpleasing experience, though it is a provocative and uncomfortably authentic one.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Patrick Peters

rated

6

...the intensity of the melodrama (evoking both Chekhov and Tennessee Williams) ensures this is never less than compelling.

Read full review at Empire

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