
Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind.... (Full plot summary below)
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Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is stagnating, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind.
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| The ARTerySean BurnsAn absurdist folly pitched somewhere between Joseph Conrad and Samuel Beckett. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawZama is a story that obviously has something of Beckett and Kafka, but creates worryingly plausible real-world evocations of their cosmic loneliness and bureaucratic imprisonment. |
| Otroscines.comDiego BattleA brilliant film that Martel makes 100% hers from a difficult novel like the Antonio Di Benedetto. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Film InquiryDavid FontanaNot many movies really get under your skin like Lucrecia Martel's masterful epic. |
| Otroscines.comDiego BatlleA brilliant film that Martel makes 100% hers from a difficult novel like the Antonio Di Benedetto. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Film InquiryTomas TrussowZama is another winner in an immaculately crafted career, and will surely be seen as one of Martel's grandest achievements. |
| The NationStuart KlawansI might call the film a delirium, but Martel is too precise for that, and too harshly satirical. You might rather think of this work as a landscape film, whose softly colored, picturesque surface is disturbed here and there by grubby fools. |
| Stuff.co.nzGraeme Tuckettama is a unique, mischievous and gorgeously clever piece of work, almost worth the nine-year wait between director Lucrecia Martel's last film - The Headless Woman - and this. |
| Concrete PlaygroundSarah WardNine years since making her last feature, Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel returns with an effort that matches her reputation: mythic. |
| CinegarageErick EstradaZama could be a mortal labyrinth that portrays the low and the mundane of Spanish colonies in South America. But no. [Full review in Spanish] |