Chekhov in contemporary Argentina. Mecha and Gregorio are at their rundown country place near La Ciénaga with their teen children. It's hot. The adults drink constantly; Mecha cuts herself, engendering a trip to the hospital and a visit from her son José. A cousin, Tali, brings her children. The kids are on their own, sunbathing by the filthy pool, dancing in town, running in the hills with shotguns, driving cars without licenses. One of the teen girls loves Isabel, a famil... (Full plot summary below)
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Chekhov in contemporary Argentina. Mecha and Gregorio are at their rundown country place near La Ciénaga with their teen children. It's hot. The adults drink constantly; Mecha cuts herself, engendering a trip to the hospital and a visit from her son José. A cousin, Tali, brings her children. The kids are on their own, sunbathing by the filthy pool, dancing in town, running in the hills with shotguns, driving cars without licenses. One of the teen girls loves Isabel, a family servant constantly accused of stealing. Mother and son, son and sisters, teen and Isabel are in each other's beds and bathrooms with a creepy intimacy. With no adults paying attention, who's at risk?
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| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerVital and alive. Frustration and malaise rumble through every richly textured frame, but behind it all is a restlessness and a desire for something better. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasMartel's sharp observations of the foibles of human nature are expressed perfectly in the telling images of cinematographer Hugo Colace and tight editing of Santiago Ricci. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenAs La Ciénaga perspires from the screen, it creates a vision of social malaise that feels paradoxically familiar and new. |
| Chicago TribunePatrick Z. McGavinArgentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel takes fundamental risks with form and style, and it pays off brilliantly. |
| Chicago ReaderMeredith BrodyEvery frame is dense with life, with children and animals running in and out, yet it's not messy. Instead it's highly focused--and something of a small masterpiece. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen...the air is equally thick with boredom and dread. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezA stunning deconstruction of bourgeois complacency in the face of pastoral decay. |
| New TimesBill GalloFor better or worse, the filmmaker says nothing directly political about the cruel fate suffered by her people, but the dark poetry of her allusions is powerful. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt's better to know going in that you're not expected to be able to fit everything together, that you may lose track of some members of the large cast, that it's like attending a family reunion when it's not your family and your hosts are too drunk to introduce you around. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxMartel can barely contain her disgust, and like Bunuel before her, she knows just when to cut the laughs and go straight for the throat. |
