ORIGINAL TITLE
La ciénaga
2001
DIRECTOR
Lucrecia Martel
SCREENPLAY
Lucrecia Martel
PRODUCTION
Lita Stantic
DURATION
103 minutes
COUNTRY
Argentina
CAST
Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán, Martin Adjemián, Daniel Valenzuela
35mm
Original Spanish version with English and Italian subtitles
PLOT
Lucrecia Martel wrote and directed the 2001 domestic drama about a pair of middle class Argentinean families in crisis that brings to mind the subtle command of Ingmar Bergman – in which the self-absorption of adults slowly and insidiously brings about the ruin of all around them. An unattended, fetid swimming pool works as image and metaphor. “It’s a big, yet subtle examination of the Latin upper middle class. She creates tension through observation. Observation, not description. Everything through the point of view of a girl who offers to us the beauty of a decadent, dysfunctional family. The control of the tempo and breathing through the eye is a sublime achievement”.