Zama
May 10, 2018
3 minutes
DAVID JENKINS
Directed by LUCRECIA MARTEL
Starring DANIEL GIMÉNEZ CACHO LOLA DUEÑAS MATHEUS NACHTERGAELE
Released
25 MAY
In 2016 the American publishing imprint released a timely translation of a 1956 Argentine novel named ‘Zama’ by the author Antonio di Benedetto. Timely in that at helpfully preceded the release of a much touted film adaptation by the staggeringly talented director Lucrecia Martel. Reading the book in anticipation of the film, two thoughts occurred: one, that this abrasive study of a disconsolate, cock-blocked political functionary trapped in the crumbling
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