La Ciénaga
Argentina • 2001
Director
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Directed by Lucrecia Martel • 2001 • ArgentinaStarring Martín Adjemián, Diego Baenas, Leonora Balcarce 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.
Synopsis
Directed by Lucrecia Martel • 2001 • ArgentinaStarring Martín Adjemián, Diego Baenas, Leonora Balcarce 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.
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Credits
Crew
DirectorLucrecia Martel
WriterLucrecia Martel
CinematographerHugo Colace
EditorSantiago Ricci
ProducerLita Stantic
Cast
Mercedes Moránas Tali
Graciela Borgesas Mecha
Martín Adjemiánas Gregorio
Leonora Balcarceas Verónica
Silvia Bayléas Mercedes
