MON JUN 5, 2023 7:00 PM

LA CIÉNAGA

$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | Introduction by film critic Mark Olsen

Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair — Year 2′

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  • RELEASED IN: 2001
  • 101 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: LUCRECIA MARTEL

ABOUT THE FILM:

In Spanish with English subtitles

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.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films

COUNTRY: Argentina