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No one should have to suffer to make a film.
While Lucrecia Martel's fourth feature film delves into the past for the first time, Zama has just as much to say about modern society as in her celebrated earlier films. Ahead of the Master Class she is giving this Sunday, the Argentinian director tells us about her latest film. “I couldn't make movies if I was going mad myself.”
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In 4:3, the attention stays much more focused on the characters.
Kantemir Balagov on Tesnota
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I hope the unconscious effect on the viewer is that the architecture tightens the frame.
Sebastián Hofmann on Tiempo Compartido
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Greetings from Aleppo ‘The war hasn’t destroyed us’
Blue sky and fluffy clouds spied through a hole in the ceiling. The apartment is coated in a thick layer of dust. Issa Touma tells his parents not to touch anything. A bomb fell from that same blue sky, straight through the ceiling, into the living room. Without exploding. “Luckily, that happens too sometimes.”