The day is almost here. Tomorrow, Venice Film Festival audiences will be the first to experience Lucrecia Martel‘s “Zama.” It’s the director’s first feature since 2008’s “The Headless Woman,” and one we’ve been eagerly awaiting. And now, a few more clips provide a new peek at the unique experience the filmmaker is bringing to the table.
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Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto, and starring Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele, Juan Minujín, Mariana Nunes, and Rafael Spregelburd, the film follows a bureaucrat who patiently awaits a better appointment by the king, even as he watches others around him move on to better placements. There’s a wonderful arch and perhaps sardonic tone in these clips, which betrays all kinds of motivations and feelings beneath of the surface of ordinary interactions. We’re also really digging that sound design.
No word yet on when “Zama” will get a theatrical release, but for now, it’s getting ready to impress on the festival circuit.
