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Zama [Sub: Eng]
A dramatic movie that takes after the officer Don Diego de Zama who has a major dream to move from his present residential community and serve in a major city. He has sent numerous letters to the King to transfer him yet no answer. When he gets exhausted from waiting, he accumulates with a gathering of troopers to pursue a hazardous desperado.
3 January 1969, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
6 October 1971, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
20 May 1975, Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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 19, 2018
Nine years since making her last feature, Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel returns with an effort that matches her reputation: mythic.April 26, 2018
The reason to see it is what happens as Zama inexorably loses his mind. Delusions seize him, apparitions come and go.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.April 24, 2018
This is one of the most atmospheric and transporting films I've seen all year, and also one of the best.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.April 20, 2018
As it goes, Zama ponders the unanswerable question of what kind of life, exactly, is worth living.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.June 08, 2018
Textured, slow-burning and hypnotic, the most resolutely arthouse release since Hard to Be a God unfolds as a fever dream.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.July 11, 2018
An absurdist folly pitched somewhere between Joseph Conrad and Samuel Beckett.