La Ciénaga
Criterion Collection Edition #743
The release of Lucrecia Martel’s LA CIÉNAGA heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a dissolute bourgeois extended family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways that political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of extraordinary tactility, and one of the great contemporary film debuts.
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La Ciénaga
Directed by Lucrecia Martel • 2001 • Argentina, Spain
Starring Martín Adjemián, Diego Baenas, Leonora BalcarceThe release of Lucrecia Martel’s LA CIÉNAGA heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beaut...
Extras
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Lucrecia Martel on LA CIÉNAGA
In this piece, produced in the fall of 2014, LA CIÉNAGA director Lucrecia Martel examines her inspirations and approach to cinema.
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Visual Strategies in LA CIÉNAGA
From the very first shot of her very first feature, LA CIÉNAGA, Argentine auteur Lucrecia Martel laid claim to a distinctive, defiantly strange cinematic syntax unlike any other. In this edition of Observations on Film Art, Professor Kristin Thompson examines the surprising choices—uncomfortably ...
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Barry Jenkins on LA CIÉNAGA
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Andrés Di Tella on LA CIÉNAGA
In this interview, conducted in April 2014, director, writer, and Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema founder Andrés Di Tella examines the cultural context from which filmmaker Lucrecia Martel emerged, and analyzes her groundbreaking first feature.
