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Film Review: Zama

By Carlos Aguilar

Argentine Director Lucrecia Martel dissects the madness and motivation of Spanish colonial rule

This article is adapted from Americas Quarterly's print issue on Venezuela after Maduro

An early descriptionof a water-averse fish fighting to stay alive works as a powerful analogy for the precarious circumstances facing the eponymous protagonist in Zama, the fourth feature-length work from Argentine director Lucrecia Martel. The film, in turn, offers an allegory for the perils and atrocities of Latin America’s colonization. Like the stubborn fish, imperial powers...

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