La Ciénaga (Criterion Collection) R
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DVD Details
- 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:
Rating: 3/4 --
...the air is equally thick with boredom and dread.
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LarsenOnFilm
A strikingly well-directed, relentlessly dreary debut feature from Argentine director Lucrecia Martel.
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Toronto Star
Every shot is dense with life, with children and animals running in and out, yet the movie is highly focused, a small masterpiece.
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Chicago Reader
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
...By its end we are glad to see the last of most of its characters, but we will not quickly forget them...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: A --
"La Cienaga" literally means the swamp, and the film feels it: a hothouse atmosphere of heat waves and rainstorms and the mired feeling of life stuck in a social bog.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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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