The Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday listed the best films of the last decade, led by Lucrecia Martel's Zama, a 2017 adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto's existential novel.
Naming in all 19 films that stood out during the 2010s, Tiff programmers chose Maren Ade's 2017 tragicomedy Toni Erdmann as their second-best, followed by Jean-Luc Godard's 2014 drama Goodbye to Language in third place.
Barry Jenkins' 2017 Oscar best picture winner Moonlight and Cristi Puiu's 2016 drama Sieranevada round out the top five.
The best-of-the-decade also includes Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Jordan Peele's Get Out among ...
Naming in all 19 films that stood out during the 2010s, Tiff programmers chose Maren Ade's 2017 tragicomedy Toni Erdmann as their second-best, followed by Jean-Luc Godard's 2014 drama Goodbye to Language in third place.
Barry Jenkins' 2017 Oscar best picture winner Moonlight and Cristi Puiu's 2016 drama Sieranevada round out the top five.
The best-of-the-decade also includes Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Jordan Peele's Get Out among ...
- 11/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday listed the best films of the last decade, led by Lucrecia Martel's Zama, a 2017 adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto's existential novel.
Naming in all 19 films that stood out during the 2010s, Tiff programmers chose Maren Ade's 2017 tragicomedy Toni Erdmann as their second-best, followed by Jean-Luc Godard's 2014 drama Goodbye to Language in third place.
Barry Jenkins' 2017 Oscar best picture winner Moonlight and Cristi Puiu's 2016 drama Sieranevada round out the top five.
The best-of-the-decade also includes Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Jordan Peele's Get Out among ...
Naming in all 19 films that stood out during the 2010s, Tiff programmers chose Maren Ade's 2017 tragicomedy Toni Erdmann as their second-best, followed by Jean-Luc Godard's 2014 drama Goodbye to Language in third place.
Barry Jenkins' 2017 Oscar best picture winner Moonlight and Cristi Puiu's 2016 drama Sieranevada round out the top five.
The best-of-the-decade also includes Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and Jordan Peele's Get Out among ...
- 11/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSJia Zhangke's Ash is Purest White.Just in case you missed it, the multiple lineups for the various festivals at Cannes this year have been announced. You can find all of the announcements on Notebook: the 71st Cannes Film Festival, Directors' Fortnight, Critics Week, and Acid. Additionally, Cannes has also announced the jury tending to the official selection: Cate Blanchett (President), Chang Chen, Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Khadja Nin, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Denis Villeneuve, and Andrey Zvyagintsev. After a truly eventful life (which includes being kidnapped by Kim Jong-il) and phenomenal career in cinema, the Korean screen legend Choi Eun-hee has died. Screen International provides a thorough obituary.Czech New Wave luminary and New Hollywood transplant Miloš Forman has died. Duane Byrge honors the man and artist with an obituary for The Hollywood Reporter.
- 4/18/2018
- MUBI
A man in a uniform is standing on the beach, staring at the sea. Natives trudge along the shore behind him. His profile makes him look like a statue, the sort of noble "Hail the conquering hero!" sculpture you'd see in national galleries. His name is Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho). The place is the edge of Argentina. The century is the 18th. He's been sent to claim and tame this land for Spain, a good old-fashioned magistrate of the crown in full colonialist bloom. Hearing the sound of laughter behind some rocks,...
- 4/13/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Ten minutes into Zama, the central character, Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), is called to the shore to receive an unexpected visitor, a trader from Montevideo. Cut to an establishing shot of several unfamiliar people moving and milling about Zama—an image that does not establish (in the conventional mode of narrative exposition) very much at all. Then the film transits to a close-up of a wary Zama, placed on the left-hand side of the frame, bringing to his lips the drink that his associate, Indalecio (Germán de Silva), has just poured for him. Various shouts, from off-screen, ping around the sound mix. Indalecio, also off-screen, presents his request for administrative help with the visitor’s business affairs (“Your relationship with the Treasury Minister is good?”) to Zama, who is still in his off-center close-up. Several subjects are elliptically raised in their conversation as the shot churns on:...
- 4/11/2018
- MUBI
"He who did justice without drawing his sword." Strand Releasing has debuted an official Us trailer for the film Zama, adapted from Antonio Di Benedetto's acclaimed novel, about a Spanish officer stationed in Paraguay separated from his wife and children. Daniel Giménez Cacho plays Don Diego de Zama, a real-life person who struggled with his mental and emotional state as isolation, bureaucratic setbacks, and self-destructive choices begin to compound themselves in his life. The cast includes Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín, Nahuel Cano, Mariana Nunes, and Daniel Veronese. This received rave reviews from some critics at the festivals where it played last year, though it seems like an acquired taste. Some may be fully into it, others may be bored by it, but it certainly is stunning to look at. See below. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Lucrecia Martel's Zama, direct from Strand's YouTube: Zama,...
- 3/7/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
1. mother!Darren Aronofsky’s divisive nightmare boasted a number of very striking posters this year, including one that blatantly yet beautifully pastiched the iconic Gips/Frankfurt design for Rosemary’s Baby and another in which Jennifer Lawrence’s face is minutely cracked like a porcelain doll. But it is this first teaser poster for the film, by the extraordinary artist James Jean, that stands out for me not only as a surreally appropriate representation of Aronofsky’s uncompromising vision, but as the best movie poster of the year. Grotesque and gorgeous, and dotted with hidden clues, Jean’s looks more like a piece of devotional iconography than a poster for a horror movie. (There is also an accompanying poster by Jean which features Javier Bardem’s character.) Known for his covers for the DC comic book series Fables, Jean has been in high demand this year, creating the charcoal illustration...
- 12/11/2017
- MUBI
Written and directed by Lucrecia Martel, the Argentine auteur behind La Cineaga and The Headless Woman, Zama is the long-awaited adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s classic of Latin American modernism.
Zama transports us to a remote corner of 18th-century South America where Zama, a servant of the Spanish crown, slowly loses his grip on reality. Zama brings a 21st century perspective to bear on the history of colonial catastrophe in the Americas. Marooned in an a colonial outpost, the titular Don Diego De Zama (a soulful yet funny Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Bad Education, Y Tu Mama narrator, Arrancame la vida) waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious post.
Martel, in a perfect coupling of literary source material and cinematic sensibility, renders Zama’s world as both absurd and mysterious as he succumbs more and more to lust, paranoia and a creeping disorientation. A fever dream, the...
Zama transports us to a remote corner of 18th-century South America where Zama, a servant of the Spanish crown, slowly loses his grip on reality. Zama brings a 21st century perspective to bear on the history of colonial catastrophe in the Americas. Marooned in an a colonial outpost, the titular Don Diego De Zama (a soulful yet funny Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Bad Education, Y Tu Mama narrator, Arrancame la vida) waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious post.
Martel, in a perfect coupling of literary source material and cinematic sensibility, renders Zama’s world as both absurd and mysterious as he succumbs more and more to lust, paranoia and a creeping disorientation. A fever dream, the...
- 12/6/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Sixteen years ago, Pedro Almódovar saw Argentine director Lucrecia Martel’s first narrative feature “La Ciénaga,” the story of teenagers in a bourgeois family driven to madness by their boredom. Almódovar immediately called his brother Agustin, with whom he runs a production company. “We absolutely had to contact the director to be part of her next movie,” Almódovar said by email. “It was an epiphany. When you discover an auteur so original, mature and elusive as Lucrecia Martel, you feel as if you’re witnessing a miracle.”
In fact, there are many miraculous aspects to Martel’s career: She developed an aesthetic out of languid poetry, digging into the contradictions of modern Argentine identity with a near-experimental focus on characters who feel out of sync with their surroundings. She became an internationally revered filmmaker with only a few features to her name, and clung to that identity for nine long years,...
In fact, there are many miraculous aspects to Martel’s career: She developed an aesthetic out of languid poetry, digging into the contradictions of modern Argentine identity with a near-experimental focus on characters who feel out of sync with their surroundings. She became an internationally revered filmmaker with only a few features to her name, and clung to that identity for nine long years,...
- 11/21/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
At the 55th New York Film Festival, the great Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel brought her latest unique venture, “Zama.” The film is a peculiar oddity, a tackling of Spanish history with deliberate inaccuracies. It’s an adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 classic novel but with layers of splattered fiction woven into its story. “Zama” is Martel’s first period film and, even more intriguingly, her first film with a male protagonist.
Continue reading Lucrecia Martel Talks ‘Zama,’ Her Lost Sci-Fi Project & More [Nyff] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Lucrecia Martel Talks ‘Zama,’ Her Lost Sci-Fi Project & More [Nyff] at The Playlist.
- 10/9/2017
- by Jordan Ruimy
- The Playlist
The Argentine Film Academy announced Lucrecia Martel's Zama will be the country's submission for consideration in the foreign-language film Oscar category, as well as the local candidate for the Spanish Goya Awards.
An "atmospheric adaptation of the well-regarded 1956 existential novel by fellow Argentinean Antonio di Benedetto," as described in The Hollywood Reporter critic David Rooney's review, Zama depicts an 18th century colonial officer of the Spanish crown (played by Daniel Gimenez Cacho) who is stationed in a remote South American river town, waiting for a transfer that will never come.
Produced by Rei Cine with an array of partners that includes...
An "atmospheric adaptation of the well-regarded 1956 existential novel by fellow Argentinean Antonio di Benedetto," as described in The Hollywood Reporter critic David Rooney's review, Zama depicts an 18th century colonial officer of the Spanish crown (played by Daniel Gimenez Cacho) who is stationed in a remote South American river town, waiting for a transfer that will never come.
Produced by Rei Cine with an array of partners that includes...
- 9/29/2017
- by Agustin Mango
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The New York Film Festival kicks off later this week, sending us straight into the second half of a very busy fall festival season. In preparation for the festival, we’ve pinpointed its most exciting offerings, from never-before-seen narratives to insightful new documentaries, and plenty of previously-screened features looking to capitalize on strong word of mouth coming out of fellow tests like Venice, Telluride, and Toronto. In short, there’s plenty to experience in the coming weeks, so consider this your roadmap to the best of the fest.
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Ahead, 13 essential titles — from buzzy world premieres to highlights from the 2017 circuit— that we can’t wait to see at this year’s New York Film Festival.
“Arthur Miller: Writer”
Documentaries about family members are always a dubious proposition. Some can also come across as overindulgent exercises,...
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Ahead, 13 essential titles — from buzzy world premieres to highlights from the 2017 circuit— that we can’t wait to see at this year’s New York Film Festival.
“Arthur Miller: Writer”
Documentaries about family members are always a dubious proposition. Some can also come across as overindulgent exercises,...
- 9/27/2017
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, David Ehrlich, Chris O'Falt, Jude Dry, Michael Nordine and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Lucrecia Martel. Photo by Darren Hughes.Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is a man out of time. Trapped in Argentina, the land of his birth, and serving at the whims of a foreign crown, he embodies the role of colonizer as a middle-aged, corporate functionary—bored, horny, witless, and incompetent. He waits and waits for a promised transfer to reunite with his wife and child, and then waits some more. When he finally does take action, volunteering to join an expedition to find and kill the notorious bandit Vicuña Porto, this adventure too is folly that ends only in further humiliation.Lucrecia Martel’s Zama resolves few of the episodes she selected to adapt from Antonio Di Benedetto’s 1956 novel of the same name. Instead, she ensnares viewers in a similarly unnerving stasis. Characters enter Zama’s life—three lovely sisters, a visiting merchant called “The Oriental,” the...
- 9/18/2017
- MUBI
Caro Danny,I share your admiration for First Reformed, certainly one of the best films I’ve seen at this year’s Tiff and Paul Schrader’s most concentrated work in ages. From the very first shot—an adagio dolly-in on a severely framed chapel—we’re in familiar territory for the veteran filmmaker, yet in the presence of a fierce new lucidity. “Even a pastor needs pastoring,” someone tells the ecclesiastical protagonist (Ethan Hawke, harrowed like one of Beckett’s aged photographs), but his midnight-of-the-soul juncture is something he must sort through alone. Contemplating the paltry church attendance from the pulpit, grimacing at other people’s earthy jokes, and growing agitated at the planet’s ecological ruination, he struggles with a cancerous body and a nauseous soul. Still, the feeling is not one of hopelessness, due to the priest’s stirrings of resolve and desire and also to Schrader’s stylistic vehemence,...
- 9/16/2017
- MUBI
You don’t make La Ciénaga, The Holy Girl, and The Headless Woman in a row without winning accolades and a passionate following the world over. As such, the anticipation level for Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel’s fourth feature and first in nearly a decade is understandably high. When Zama was denied a Cannes slot back in May, people assumed it was a blameless case of conflict of interest, as competition jury president Pedro Almodóvar is also a producer of the film. When the Venice Film Festival subsequently selected the long-awaited picture but put it in the less prestigious out-of-competition section, however, eyebrows were raised with palpable outrage – especially considering the fact that among the 21-title strong competition line-up, only one film comes from a female filmmaker.
Well, now that we’ve seen it, the festival programmers’ reservations seem easier to understand.
A synopsis of the film reads: Based on...
Well, now that we’ve seen it, the festival programmers’ reservations seem easier to understand.
A synopsis of the film reads: Based on...
- 9/3/2017
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
The uneasy co-existence of indigenous and colonial cultures in Latin America is given darkly oneiric treatment in Zama, Lucrecia Martel's atmospheric adaptation of the well-regarded 1956 existential novel by fellow Argentinean Antonio di Benedetto. The director of The Holy Girl and The Headless Woman has always been more concerned with creating an enveloping experience than shaping a conventional narrative. That's more than ever the case with this freewheeling historical drama about a minor officer of the Spanish crown stationed in a remote backwater of what is now Paraguay, waiting for a transfer that will never come.
Some no doubt will...
Some no doubt will...
- 8/31/2017
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Credit where it’s due: Few films have done more to unite the international film community than “Zama.” The minutes-long opening titles list over 20 different production companies and regional supports. The nominally Argentinian film is a joint venture between nine other countries as well, and the end credits name figures as diverse as Danny Glover, Pedro Almodóvar, and Gael Garcia Bernal among the many other who jumped on to help this project through a troubled, many year production. Finally complete, Lucrecia Martel’s film promises to be significantly more divisive.
Technically an adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto acclaimed modernist novel, “Zama” reads just as much like an open declaration of war against the line that separates form and content. The source text told the story of an 18th century magistrate driven to madness while waiting for his next post; the film forces the viewer to go mad right there with him.
Technically an adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto acclaimed modernist novel, “Zama” reads just as much like an open declaration of war against the line that separates form and content. The source text told the story of an 18th century magistrate driven to madness while waiting for his next post; the film forces the viewer to go mad right there with him.
- 8/31/2017
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off this week, and with it, the rest of a very busy fall festival season. In preparation for the lauded festival, we’ve hand-picked 20 films we can’t wait to see, from the starriest of premieres to the most unexpected of offerings. Check them out below.
“mother!”
Darren Aronofsky has veered off in many unpredictable directions over the years, but at his core, he’s a master at subverting the horror/thriller genres: From “Pi” to “Black Swan,” the filmmaker excels at taking his stories in creepy, unpredictable directions in which it’s hard to tell how much we can believe onscreen — and whether his characters have lost their minds. That mode certainly seems to be in play for “mother!”, which appears to be a “Rosemary’s Baby”-like tale of a married couple (Jennifer Laurence and Javier Bardem) whose home is infiltrated by...
“mother!”
Darren Aronofsky has veered off in many unpredictable directions over the years, but at his core, he’s a master at subverting the horror/thriller genres: From “Pi” to “Black Swan,” the filmmaker excels at taking his stories in creepy, unpredictable directions in which it’s hard to tell how much we can believe onscreen — and whether his characters have lost their minds. That mode certainly seems to be in play for “mother!”, which appears to be a “Rosemary’s Baby”-like tale of a married couple (Jennifer Laurence and Javier Bardem) whose home is infiltrated by...
- 8/30/2017
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, David Ehrlich, Zack Sharf, Jude Dry, Chris O'Falt, Michael Nordine and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Hot on the heels of a new trailer — and ahead of a Venice Film Festival premiere — another look at Lucrecia Martel’s highly-anticipated new film Zama has arrived with three clips. Produced by brothers Pedro and Agustin Almodóvar, Argentinean author Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 novel has been adapted by Martel, which follows a story set in the late 18th century in Paraguay, tracking Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), an officer of the Spanish Crown, who is tasked with going after a bandit.
“You’ve got to be really patient, avoid the vanity of being productive,” Martel tells Terremoto in a fascinating interview. “The process of questioning the world is not so simple. Variety and difference are important. These are not things you lay hands on by goofing around. I take care not to pollute the planet with my stuff. Each time I hear a production house is looking for content,...
“You’ve got to be really patient, avoid the vanity of being productive,” Martel tells Terremoto in a fascinating interview. “The process of questioning the world is not so simple. Variety and difference are important. These are not things you lay hands on by goofing around. I take care not to pollute the planet with my stuff. Each time I hear a production house is looking for content,...
- 8/30/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The day is almost here. Tomorrow, Venice Film Festival audiences will be the first to experience Lucrecia Martel‘s “Zama.” It’s the director’s first feature since 2008’s “The Headless Woman,” and one we’ve been eagerly awaiting. And now, a few more clips provide a new peek at the unique experience the filmmaker is bringing to the table.
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Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, and starring Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín, Mariana Nunes, and Rafael Spregelburd, the film follows a bureaucrat who patiently awaits a better appointment by the king, even as he watches others around him move on to better placements.
Continue reading ‘Zama’ Clips: Meet A Man Without Fear In Lucrecia Martel’s New Film at The Playlist.
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Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, and starring Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín, Mariana Nunes, and Rafael Spregelburd, the film follows a bureaucrat who patiently awaits a better appointment by the king, even as he watches others around him move on to better placements.
Continue reading ‘Zama’ Clips: Meet A Man Without Fear In Lucrecia Martel’s New Film at The Playlist.
- 8/29/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Venice Film Festival begins next week, which means one of our most-anticipated films of the year will finally make its debut. After helming one of the best films of the previous decade with 2008’s The Headless Woman, director Lucrecia Martel is returning this year Zama. Produced by brothers Pedro and Agustin Almodóvar, Argentinean author Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 novel has been adapted by Martel, which follows a story set in the late 18th century in Paraguay, tracking Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), an officer of the Spanish Crown, who is tasked with going after a bandit.
Ahead of its Venice premiere and subsequent stops at Tiff and Nyff, a new trailer has now arrived. “Martel renders Zama’s world—his daily regimen of small humiliations and petty politicking—as both absurd and mysterious, and as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia, subject to a creeping disorientation,” the Nyff descriptions notes.
Ahead of its Venice premiere and subsequent stops at Tiff and Nyff, a new trailer has now arrived. “Martel renders Zama’s world—his daily regimen of small humiliations and petty politicking—as both absurd and mysterious, and as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia, subject to a creeping disorientation,” the Nyff descriptions notes.
- 8/26/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Argentinian director Lucretia Martel was one of the most exciting filmmakers in the world when she completed “The Headless Woman,” her fascinating 2008 character study about a dazed woman recovering (and not recovering) from a car crash. Then, Martel dropped off the map, reportedly due to a debilitating illness that deprived the film community of a first-rate talent. She apparently recovered, and it’s especially heartening to head into the fall season with a new Martel film in the cards.
Set to premiere in Venice and also play at Tiff and Nyff, “Zama” is a sweeping period piece years in the making. Adapted from Antonio Di Benedetto’s 1956 novel, the movie focuses on Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), a government clerk stuck in Paraguay, estranged from his family and keen on getting transferred to Bueno Aires. With time, he grows increasingly violent and frustrated with his surroundings, lashing out...
Set to premiere in Venice and also play at Tiff and Nyff, “Zama” is a sweeping period piece years in the making. Adapted from Antonio Di Benedetto’s 1956 novel, the movie focuses on Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), a government clerk stuck in Paraguay, estranged from his family and keen on getting transferred to Bueno Aires. With time, he grows increasingly violent and frustrated with his surroundings, lashing out...
- 8/25/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
It’s beginning to look a lot like fall festival season. On the heels of announcements from Tiff and Venice, the 55th edition of the New York Film Festival has unveiled its Main Slate, including a number of returning faces, emerging talents, and some of the most anticipated films from the festival circuit this year.
This year’s Main Slate showcases a number of films honored at Cannes including Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or–winner “The Square,” Robin Campillo’s “Bpm,” and Agnès Varda & Jr’s “Faces Places.” Other Cannes standouts, including “The Rider” and “The Florida Project,” will also screen at Nyff.
Read MoreTIFF Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Elsewhere, Aki Kaurismäki’s Silver Bear–winner “The Other Side of Hope” and Agnieszka Holland’s Alfred Bauer Prize–winner “Spoor” come to Nyff after Berlin bows.
This year’s Main Slate showcases a number of films honored at Cannes including Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or–winner “The Square,” Robin Campillo’s “Bpm,” and Agnès Varda & Jr’s “Faces Places.” Other Cannes standouts, including “The Rider” and “The Florida Project,” will also screen at Nyff.
Read MoreTIFF Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Elsewhere, Aki Kaurismäki’s Silver Bear–winner “The Other Side of Hope” and Agnieszka Holland’s Alfred Bauer Prize–winner “Spoor” come to Nyff after Berlin bows.
- 8/8/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Director Lucrecia Martel has taken the helm of adapting Antonio di Benedetto’s existential masterpiece “Zama,” a novel largely considered to be one of the most iconic pieces of Argentine work. With a lot of expectations riding on bringing this modern classic to life, Martel is taking on this project with a vision in mind.
In the new “Zama” trailer, we meet Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a minor colonial officer for Spain in 18th century Paraguay. Separated from his family and hungry for promotion, Zama struggles to find peace while waiting in this unfamiliar landscape.
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Known for his collaboration with famous Hispanic filmmakers like Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón, Cacho brings a wide array of experience to the complex character of Zama. As Martel stated, Zama “uncannily lives the same conflicts that we are wrestling and contending with in our modern world.
In the new “Zama” trailer, we meet Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a minor colonial officer for Spain in 18th century Paraguay. Separated from his family and hungry for promotion, Zama struggles to find peace while waiting in this unfamiliar landscape.
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Known for his collaboration with famous Hispanic filmmakers like Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón, Cacho brings a wide array of experience to the complex character of Zama. As Martel stated, Zama “uncannily lives the same conflicts that we are wrestling and contending with in our modern world.
- 2/17/2017
- by Maya Reddy
- Indiewire
After helming one of the best films of the previous decade with 2008’s The Headless Woman, director Lucrecia Martel is finally returning this year with her follow-up, one of our most-anticipated titles of the year. Zama, produced by brothers Pedro and Agustin Almodóvar, among others, has been adapted from Antonio di Benedetto‘s 1956 novel by Martel. While a premiere has yet to be announced, the first trailer has now arrived.
Set in the late 18th century, the story follows Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), an officer of the Spanish Crown, who is tasked with going after a bandit. Courtesy of Screen Daily, the ominous teaser is a gorgeous first look at the drama as we hear a child’s voiceover accompany the action. In terms of a possible premiere, we’d say Cannes could happen, but with Almodóvar serving on the jury, perhaps a fall bow would be more likely.
Set in the late 18th century, the story follows Don Diego de Zama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho), an officer of the Spanish Crown, who is tasked with going after a bandit. Courtesy of Screen Daily, the ominous teaser is a gorgeous first look at the drama as we hear a child’s voiceover accompany the action. In terms of a possible premiere, we’d say Cannes could happen, but with Almodóvar serving on the jury, perhaps a fall bow would be more likely.
- 2/17/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Drama is co-produced by Augustin and Pedro Almodóvar.
Screen can reveal the first teaser for Zama, the latest film from Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel.
Mobile users can click here to watch the teaser.
The film is a wide-ranging co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France, Mexico, USA, The Netherlands and Portugal.
Filmmaking brothers Augustin and Pedro Almodóvar were co-producers on the project.
Based on the 1956 novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, Zama is set in the seventeenth century, following a Spanish officer (played by Daniel Giménez Cacho) who awaits a transfer from Paraguay to Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Walt Disney will distribute in Argentina later in 2017 and The Match Factory is representing international territories.
Producers on the project were Rei Cine and Bananeira Filmes in co-production with El Deseo, Patagonik, Mpm Film, Canana, Lemming, Knm, O Som e a Fúria, Louverture Films, Schortcut Films, Telecine, Bertha Foundation, Perdomo Productions, Picnic Producciones.
Screen can reveal the first teaser for Zama, the latest film from Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel.
Mobile users can click here to watch the teaser.
The film is a wide-ranging co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France, Mexico, USA, The Netherlands and Portugal.
Filmmaking brothers Augustin and Pedro Almodóvar were co-producers on the project.
Based on the 1956 novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, Zama is set in the seventeenth century, following a Spanish officer (played by Daniel Giménez Cacho) who awaits a transfer from Paraguay to Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Walt Disney will distribute in Argentina later in 2017 and The Match Factory is representing international territories.
Producers on the project were Rei Cine and Bananeira Filmes in co-production with El Deseo, Patagonik, Mpm Film, Canana, Lemming, Knm, O Som e a Fúria, Louverture Films, Schortcut Films, Telecine, Bertha Foundation, Perdomo Productions, Picnic Producciones.
- 2/17/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Drama is co-produced by Augustin and Pedro Almodóvar.
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Zama, the latest film from Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel.
Mobile users can click here to watch the trailer.
The film is a wide-ranging co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France, Mexico, USA, The Netherlands and Portugal.
Filmmaking brothers Augustin and Pedro Almodóvar were co-producers on the project.
Based on the 1956 novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, Zama is set in the seventeenth century, following a Spanish officer (played by Daniel Giménez Cacho) who awaits a transfer from Paraguay to Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Walt Disney will distribute in Argentina later in 2017 and The Match Factory is representing international territories.
Screen can reveal the first trailer for Zama, the latest film from Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel.
Mobile users can click here to watch the trailer.
The film is a wide-ranging co-production between Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France, Mexico, USA, The Netherlands and Portugal.
Filmmaking brothers Augustin and Pedro Almodóvar were co-producers on the project.
Based on the 1956 novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, Zama is set in the seventeenth century, following a Spanish officer (played by Daniel Giménez Cacho) who awaits a transfer from Paraguay to Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Walt Disney will distribute in Argentina later in 2017 and The Match Factory is representing international territories.
- 2/17/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Screen rounds up the films from across the globe that could launch at Cannes…
With less than a month to go until the Cannes Film Festival announces its line-up at its annual Paris press conference on April 14, Screen looks at what could make it into Official Selection and the parallel sections of Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
UK and Ireland
The UK could have one of its strongest Cannes for years with hot favourites for a competition slot including Andrea Arnold’s Shia Labeouf-starring Us road movie American Honey and Ken Loach’s gritty Northern England-set drama I, Daniel Blake. It would be Loach’s 12th time in competition.
Ben Wheatley is also reportedly gunning for an Official Selection slot for his 1970s Boston-set, gangland thriller Free Fire, potentially Out of Competition or in Midnight Screenings. He was last in Cannes with Sightseers in Directors’ Fortnight.
Other UK hopefuls include Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins and Indian...
With less than a month to go until the Cannes Film Festival announces its line-up at its annual Paris press conference on April 14, Screen looks at what could make it into Official Selection and the parallel sections of Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
UK and Ireland
The UK could have one of its strongest Cannes for years with hot favourites for a competition slot including Andrea Arnold’s Shia Labeouf-starring Us road movie American Honey and Ken Loach’s gritty Northern England-set drama I, Daniel Blake. It would be Loach’s 12th time in competition.
Ben Wheatley is also reportedly gunning for an Official Selection slot for his 1970s Boston-set, gangland thriller Free Fire, potentially Out of Competition or in Midnight Screenings. He was last in Cannes with Sightseers in Directors’ Fortnight.
Other UK hopefuls include Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins and Indian...
- 3/21/2016
- ScreenDaily
Zama
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel has become one of her country’s most prolific filmmakers with three outstanding titles to her name, beginning with 2001’s La Cienega (where she won the Alfred Bauer film award in Berlin, and the title recently became part of the Criterion selection), 2004’s The Holy Girl, and the coolly received The Headless Woman in 2008, which has been critically recuperated since. Her latest, Zama, is a parody, according to Martel and is based on the highly regarded 1956 novel by Antonio di Benedetto focusing on Diego de Zama, an officer of the Spanish crown. While endlessly waiting for a transfer to Buenos Aires, he joins a party of soldiers hunting down a bandit before absconding to less regulated realms where he is allowed to live freely. The project is one of the most ambitious Us-Latin America-Euro co-productions in the country’s history.
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel has become one of her country’s most prolific filmmakers with three outstanding titles to her name, beginning with 2001’s La Cienega (where she won the Alfred Bauer film award in Berlin, and the title recently became part of the Criterion selection), 2004’s The Holy Girl, and the coolly received The Headless Woman in 2008, which has been critically recuperated since. Her latest, Zama, is a parody, according to Martel and is based on the highly regarded 1956 novel by Antonio di Benedetto focusing on Diego de Zama, an officer of the Spanish crown. While endlessly waiting for a transfer to Buenos Aires, he joins a party of soldiers hunting down a bandit before absconding to less regulated realms where he is allowed to live freely. The project is one of the most ambitious Us-Latin America-Euro co-productions in the country’s history.
- 1/14/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
It has been far too long since Lucrecia Martel's last feature, 2008's "The Headless Woman." Since then, we've been agonizingly waiting for "Zama" to film. She became attached to the project in 2012, and last we heard, a 2014 shoot was in the works. That didn't happen, but cameras are now actually rolling on the movie and the first look has arrived. Sort of. Variety has the concept art for the epic project, which they call “one of Latin America’s most awaited and ambitious films.” It's a bit of hyperbole, but we'll take it, particularly as we're pretty excited for this one. Pedro Almodovar and his production company El Deseo are among the backers of the movie based on Argentine writer Antonio di Benedetto's 1956 novel that's set in an unnamed Latin American country in 1790, and follows Don Diego de Zama, an official for the Spanish crown on his way to Buenos Aires.
- 5/20/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: The Match Factory has boarded Lucrecia Martel’s new feature Zama and will begin pre-sales on the period drama in Cannes.
The film will be shot in Northern Argentina and Brazil during early 2015.
The Rotterdam CineMart-winning project is based on the novel by Argentinian writer Antonio Di Benedetto.
Zama takes place in the late 18th century. Diego de Zama, a South-American-born functionary of the colonial government, awaits a ship that should bring a royal missive avowing his promotion and transfer: the possibility to return to where his wife and children live, whom he has not seen in several years.
The producers are:
Benjamin Domenech and Santiago Gallelli from Rei Cine, the team behind Historia del Miedo by Benjamin Naishtat (Berlinale Competition 2014);
Vania Catani’s Bananeira Filmes, the producer of El Ardor by Pablo Fendrik (Cannes 2014, Official Selection, Special Screening);
Pedro and Agustin Almodovar’s El Deseo who also collaborated on Martel ́s previous film, La Mujer Sin Cabeza;
and...
The film will be shot in Northern Argentina and Brazil during early 2015.
The Rotterdam CineMart-winning project is based on the novel by Argentinian writer Antonio Di Benedetto.
Zama takes place in the late 18th century. Diego de Zama, a South-American-born functionary of the colonial government, awaits a ship that should bring a royal missive avowing his promotion and transfer: the possibility to return to where his wife and children live, whom he has not seen in several years.
The producers are:
Benjamin Domenech and Santiago Gallelli from Rei Cine, the team behind Historia del Miedo by Benjamin Naishtat (Berlinale Competition 2014);
Vania Catani’s Bananeira Filmes, the producer of El Ardor by Pablo Fendrik (Cannes 2014, Official Selection, Special Screening);
Pedro and Agustin Almodovar’s El Deseo who also collaborated on Martel ́s previous film, La Mujer Sin Cabeza;
and...
- 5/14/2014
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
It's hard to believe that it's now five years since Lucrecia Martel blew us away with "The Headless Woman," and ever since, we've been eagerly awaiting her next feature. While she's tackled some shorts in the interim, and spent some time trying to mount the sci-fi comic book adaptation "El Eternauta" before it fell apart, the last we heard from Martel was in 2012 when she became attached to "Zama." And then that was it. But it looks like if things shake out the way they should, Martel will be back behind the camera in 2014 with a powerhouse name in support. The Buenos Aires Herald reports that "Zama" is aiming to shoot in 2014, and while pre-production is underway, financing still needs to come together. That said, the project has some added lustre thanks to Pedro Almodovar, whose El Deseo production company is behind the movie. Based on Argentine wriiter Antonio di Benedetto's 1956 novel,...
- 12/16/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Argentine director Lucrecia Martel ("The Holy Girl," "The Headless Woman") is set to helm an adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s existential historical novel "Zama" for El Deseo and a still as yet unsecured French producer says The Hollywood Reporter.
Set around Paraguay at the end of the 17th century, the story follows an official for the Spanish crown awaiting transfer to Buenos Aires.
Lita Stantic will produce. Shooting aims to begin next July depending upon scheduling and financing.
Set around Paraguay at the end of the 17th century, the story follows an official for the Spanish crown awaiting transfer to Buenos Aires.
Lita Stantic will produce. Shooting aims to begin next July depending upon scheduling and financing.
- 9/5/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
On the occasion of its 25th edition, Argentina's Mar del Plata Film Festival (site) is teaming up with Mubi to present five films from its competition lineup online for free through November 21. Viewable as of today is Juan Baldana's Arrieros (Muleteers), a documentary on the life of one family living in Cajón del Maipo, up in the Chilean Andes (see the trailer above, the festival's interview with Baldana and his blog).
On Tuesday, Lucas Blanco's Buenos Aires-set comedy Amor en transito (Transit Love) will be available to viewers in Argentina, while Tamae Garateguy's Pompeya, a playful, gangster-ridden take on the movie-within-the-movie, goes worldwide.
Then on Thursday it's Nicolás Carreras's El camino del vino (The Ways of Wine), about a sommelier who loses his pallet, followed on Friday by Fernando Spiner's Aballay, based on a story by Antonio Di Benedetto set in 19th century Argentina: the western goes gaucho.
On Tuesday, Lucas Blanco's Buenos Aires-set comedy Amor en transito (Transit Love) will be available to viewers in Argentina, while Tamae Garateguy's Pompeya, a playful, gangster-ridden take on the movie-within-the-movie, goes worldwide.
Then on Thursday it's Nicolás Carreras's El camino del vino (The Ways of Wine), about a sommelier who loses his pallet, followed on Friday by Fernando Spiner's Aballay, based on a story by Antonio Di Benedetto set in 19th century Argentina: the western goes gaucho.
- 11/16/2010
- MUBI
Westerns are a dying breed. Though over the last few years there has been a minor resurgence in the genre with some amazing films (The Proposition, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford…I’m looking at you) the genre is most definitely on the downward slope. What does that mean for niche films within the genre? Only that we see even less of them and in some cases, they're nearly extinct.
That isn’t stopping director Fernando Spiner and Timecrimes producer Eduardo Carneros from taking a run at bringing back the Gaucho Western. Shooting has wrapped on Aballay based on a short story of the same title from Argentine author Antonio di Benedetto. It’s the story of an ill-tempered gaucho who reconsiders his life of crime and brutality after seeing the terror on the eyes of a boy whose father he killed in cold blood.
That isn’t stopping director Fernando Spiner and Timecrimes producer Eduardo Carneros from taking a run at bringing back the Gaucho Western. Shooting has wrapped on Aballay based on a short story of the same title from Argentine author Antonio di Benedetto. It’s the story of an ill-tempered gaucho who reconsiders his life of crime and brutality after seeing the terror on the eyes of a boy whose father he killed in cold blood.
- 11/30/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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