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International Writing Program (IWP) Cinematheque: ZAMA
Sep 8, 2019
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
118 East College Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
A new free film every Sunday! Tour the far reaches of global cinema through films created or chosen by the IWP Fall Residents. Free and open to the public, just like the rest of IWP's events. Stay for a Q&A after the screening with Carlos Gamerro, current IWP Fall Resident from Argentina.
ZAMA
(Dir.: Lucrecia Martel; Argentina, 2017) (115 min)
(In Spanish, Qom, Pilagá, and Mbyá Guaraní with English subtitles)
The film’s script, based on the novel of the same name by Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto, narrates the 18th-century misadventures of Diego de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), a magistrate of the Spanish Crown stationed in a remote Paraguayan town, who patiently waits for his long-promised transfer to the city of Lerma in Argentina.
“Though it’s a period drama on its surface, rife with big wigs and fanciful costuming, Zama is by no means a conventional historical retelling, lurching from event to event with a clear sense of time and place[…] Time passes, but how much? It is the essence of this enigmatic, discomfitingly strange film that history writ large feels far off and underdetermined, as distant as the empire, as if all that were left of it were the scattershot clumps occasionally washing ashore. The movie is just this side of surreal.” -- Vanity Fair
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