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Lucrecia Martel fuses the mystical and the historical with bold adventure in 'Zama'

"Zama," the story of a man waiting to return, has become the vehicle for the long-awaited return of Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel.

The film is a bold, heady work made up of sly humor and revelatory vision. It also marks the first new movie since 2009's "The Headless Woman" from arguably the most celebrated female filmmaker in Latin America.

An adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Antonio di Benedetto first published in 1956, Martel's "Zama" follows a functionary of the Spanish crown named Don Diego de Zama (played with droll exasperation by the Mexican actor Daniel Gimenez Cacho) who waits in a remote Paraguayan village for a new set of

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