La Ciénaga

Name: La Ciénaga
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: October 3, 2001
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán

2001

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Cowboy Booking International | Release Date: October 3, 2001 | R

Starring: Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán

Summary: A series of surreal moments and twisted family relationships is revealed as two large families spend a torpid summer together in a faded resort town in Northwest Argentina.

Director: Lucrecia Martel

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 103 min

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Meredith Brody

Every frame is dense with life, with children and animals running in and out, yet it's not messy. Instead it's highly focused--and something of a small masterpiece. Read full review

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Sean Axmaker

Vital and alive. Frustration and malaise rumble through every richly textured frame, but behind it all is a restlessness and a desire for something better. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

Martel's sharp observations of the foibles of human nature are expressed perfectly in the telling images of cinematographer Hugo Colace and tight editing of Santiago Ricci. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Martel's off-the-cuff candor and intelligent eye for the quietly telling detail charts the progressive rot not only of a family, but of an entire social class. Read full review

Jay Carr

The triumph of La Cienaga lies in Martel's way of fashioning the kind of ensemble performance that draws us in by convincing us we're watching behavior, not acting. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

A fascinating, damning picture of bourgeois boredom that manages to be both epic and intimate at the same time. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

It sounds churlish to argue that a movie can have too much integrity for its own good, but that's exactly the problem with La Ciénaga. Read full review

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