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Zama [Sub: Eng]
Story of Don Diego de Zama, an officer in the Spanish armed force. He serves in a small community yet he dreams to be awesome officer so he composes numerous letters to the King to transfer him to a major city. Numerous letters have been sent yet no answer from the King, the thing that makes Zama feels exhausted at that point chooses to pursue an unsafe criminal with a gathering of fighters.
20 May 1975, Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina
15 May 1961, Madrid, Spain
3 January 1969, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
6 October 1971, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
July 19, 2018
Nine years since making her last feature, Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel returns with an effort that matches her reputation: mythic.
June 08, 2018
Textured, slow-burning and hypnotic, the most resolutely arthouse release since Hard to Be a God unfolds as a fever dream.
June 27, 2018
Martel masterfully creates a vivid, sensuous, and unbearable world from which Zama and the audience can't wait to escape. Yet we also can't seem to take our eyes off it.
August 06, 2018
This gently surreal, impossibly lush existential nightmare is almost punishingly languorous, but the rewards are many for those who vibe with its peculiar rhythms.
July 11, 2018
An absurdist folly pitched somewhere between Joseph Conrad and Samuel Beckett.
April 26, 2018
A brilliantly discomfiting portrait of European colonialism and its discontents...
July 23, 2018
...the tale of a man haunted by his place in history.
July 05, 2018
Some movies unfold as dreams; "Zama" dances us playfully toward the edge of nightmare and then asks us to open our eyes.
April 24, 2018
This is one of the most atmospheric and transporting films I've seen all year, and also one of the best.
April 20, 2018
As it goes, Zama ponders the unanswerable question of what kind of life, exactly, is worth living.
April 26, 2018
The reason to see it is what happens as Zama inexorably loses his mind. Delusions seize him, apparitions come and go.
May 21, 2018
There's absolutely nothing else like it in theaters this year, which I mean as both a hearty endorsement and a necessary forewarning.

