La Ciénaga (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 28, 2014
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán, Martin Adjemian & Daniel Valenzuela | |
Performer: | Leonora Balcarce, Silvia Bayle, Juan Cruz Bordeu, Noelia Bravo Herrera, Maria Micol Ellero & Andrea Lopez | |
Directed by | Lucrecia Martel | |
Screenwriting by | Lucrecia Martel | |
Cinematography by | Hugo Colace | |
Produced by | Lita Stantic |
Entertainment Reviews:
An early image of a suntanned chest impaled by the shards of a broken wine glass becomes an emblem of Martel's ability to draw blood from her subject matter.
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The Ringer
Rating: 4/5 --
The air of stultifying decadence is captured to a T by Martel. It's a reminder that as well as being a brilliant technician and visual artist, she is an exemplary writer too.
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Patrick Nabarro
There's a real energy in the way that La Cienaga takes nothing for granted -- except your attention and your intelligence.
Dallas Morning News
Rating: 4.5/5 --
the most remarkable debut in recent experience
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 8/10 --
Martel doesn't try to connect the dots with typical continuity editing either, opting instead to focus on textures and fleeting movements
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Movie Metropolis
...Martel coaxes wonderfully unselfconscious performances from children and adults alike, revealing family life of a kind rarely seen on screen...
Sight and Sound
Rating: C --
Experiencing this film ultimately becomes as stimulating as watching metal rust.
Houston Chronicle
Product Description:
This Argentinean tale, which revolves around a group of families passing summer vacation in a rural country house, does not rely on a concrete plotline, but rather roves, rambles, and stumbles upon each new event. The most notable characteristic of LA CIÉNAGA is its mood--a brooding, dreadful, fearsome tension that does not wain or cease even in the very last moment of the film. No event, no action, no exchange of words, no scene of the movie is more or less important than another. Instead, the film continues nonsequentially in what feels like a prolonged wait.
Using gorgeous, realistic photography--of green mountains against a grayish humid sky, of the bright colors of summer swimsuits and shorts stained with blood or mud, of the simultaneously beautiful and disgusting human body--Lucrecia Martel's oeuvre is about strings of images and the suggestion of potential meanings. Never, however, does the director step over the line and reveal too much to her viewers. As characters come and go from the film's focus, maintaining a chilly distance from the viewer, LA CIÉNAGA unfurls slowly, languorously, and without closure.
Using gorgeous, realistic photography--of green mountains against a grayish humid sky, of the bright colors of summer swimsuits and shorts stained with blood or mud, of the simultaneously beautiful and disgusting human body--Lucrecia Martel's oeuvre is about strings of images and the suggestion of potential meanings. Never, however, does the director step over the line and reveal too much to her viewers. As characters come and go from the film's focus, maintaining a chilly distance from the viewer, LA CIÉNAGA unfurls slowly, languorously, and without closure.
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