Zama [Sub: Eng]

Some movies unfold as dreams; "Zama" dances us playfully toward the edge of nightmare and then asks us to open our eyes.

There's absolutely nothing else like it in theaters this year, which I mean as both a hearty endorsement and a necessary forewarning.

The reason to see it is what happens as Zama inexorably loses his mind. Delusions seize him, apparitions come and go.

A brilliantly discomfiting portrait of European colonialism and its discontents...

This is one of the most atmospheric and transporting films I've seen all year, and also one of the best.

As it goes, Zama ponders the unanswerable question of what kind of life, exactly, is worth living.

This gently surreal, impossibly lush existential nightmare is almost punishingly languorous, but the rewards are many for those who vibe with its peculiar rhythms.

...the tale of a man haunted by his place in history.

Nine years since making her last feature, Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel returns with an effort that matches her reputation: mythic.

An absurdist folly pitched somewhere between Joseph Conrad and Samuel Beckett.

Martel masterfully creates a vivid, sensuous, and unbearable world from which Zama and the audience can't wait to escape. Yet we also can't seem to take our eyes off it.

Textured, slow-burning and hypnotic, the most resolutely arthouse release since Hard to Be a God unfolds as a fever dream.