Lucrecia Martel | 'Zama' Press Conference | NYFF55

The great Lucrecia Martel ventures into the realm of historical fiction and makes the genre entirely her own in this adaptation of Antonio di Benedetto’s 1956 classic of Argentinean literature. In the late 18th century, in a far-flung corner of what seems to be Paraguay, the title character, an officer of the Spanish crown (Daniel Giménez Cacho) born in the Americas, waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. Martel renders Zama’s world-his daily regimen of small humiliations and petty politicking-as both absurd and mysterious, and as he increasingly succumbs to lust and paranoia, subject to a creeping disorientation. Precise yet dreamlike, and thick with atmosphere, Zama is a singular and intoxicating experience, a welcome return from one of contemporary cinema’s truly brilliant minds. A Strand Releasing release.
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[@irenepolimenisosa6692]

I don't mean to be mean, but that girl it's an awful translator. She ignored most of the important stuff Martel said and what she didn't ignore, she unfairly simplified. So beware english speakers! you should keep that in mind.

[@katmahbub]

Oh dear, que la'stima!

[@irenepolimenisosa6692]

@AutomobileFunk Fuck off with capital F

[@xineagex]

Yo what a awful translation for what Lucrecia Martel is telling. She is an amazing storyteller and so on when have interviews all what she says is very well articulated.

[@NicoDiCataldo]

Horrible?

[@katmahbub]

This movie blew my mind.... What imagination produced this movie, with so many unexpected responses and turns of scenery and human responses. It seemed like a journey of the absurd of colonial life efforting to lay over the reality of life in a hot uncivilized indigenous place with despondent slaves... nobody seems to fit where they are... and Zama is miserable, trying to get what he doesn't have and can't seem to work the system of colonial rule, and it seems the indigenous and native life (referring to both people and nature) is trying to swallow him up... it seems he is being called to surrender to it to survive and perhaps actually have a life worth living.

[@riverauribe]

Awful translator :(

[@wzumas]

terrible traductora!!!

[@victorarchie9558]

@everyone giving this perfectly adequate translator a hard time: if you think she's unfairly simplifying Martel's anecdotes, she's just doing her job. it's a press conference, she's not there to translate Martel's longwinded 30 minute stories for everyone to fall asleep to. Martel has an annoying tendency to completely go off topic and turn what should've been a 30 minute interview into 90 minutes. it's not charming, it's just unnecessary. god forbid the translator didn't include every minute detail about Martel's experience with water in her childhood or whatever the fuck.
PS
I love Martel's films, but these interviews get me nowhere.