La Ciénaga

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.

Starring Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán, Martín Adjemián, Silvia Bayle, Leonora Balcarce, Sofia Bertolotto, Noella Bravo Herrera, Maria Micol Ellero, Andrea Lopez, Diego Baenas, Juan Cruz Bordeu