The history of colonization is written by men, representing success and courage. Zama, however, represents failure, that for which men do not seem prepared. Lucrecia Martel shows, in a tone of absurd humor, the eternal waiting of a man whose past does not serve him to gain respect in the present. More sensual in the first part, but also less successful, the film ends in a third act that displays all the talent of a director who looks sideways, who builds beautiful images that flee from the imitation of pictorial references. A director who builds her own image of the past.
Review of Zama
