Zama

For nine long years fans have been wondering when renowned Argentine director Lucrecia Martel would release another film, and it’s been well worth the wait. Zama is an epic masterpiece and hypnotic satire detailing the life of Don Diego de Zama: an 18th century Spanish magistrate who’s been languishing in a remote, disease-ridden colony in Paraguay for years—possibly decades—hoping to be transferred to a better post and gradually losing his mind. Desperate to escape, he volunteers on an expedition to hunt down legendary outlaw Vicuña Porto, though no one is certain he even exists. So much more than a period piece, this is a sumptuous, mesmerizing colonial nightmare filled with breathtaking juxtapositions of violence and natural beauty that will drawn you in with its exhilarating strangeness.