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La Ciénaga (2001)

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Reviews Counted:36

Fresh:31

Rotten:5

Average Rating:6.9/10

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: This Argentinean tale, which revolves around a group of families passing summer vacation in a rural country house, does not rely on a concrete plotline, but rather roves, rambles, and stumbles upon... This Argentinean tale, which revolves around a group of families passing summer vacation in a rural country house, does not rely on a concrete plotline, but rather roves, rambles, and stumbles upon each new event. The most notable characteristic of LA CIÉNAGA is its mood--a brooding, dreadful, fearsome tension that does not wain or cease even in the very last moment of the film. No event, no action, no exchange of words, no scene of the movie is more or less important than another. Instead, the film continues nonsequentially in what feels like a prolonged wait. Using gorgeous, realistic photography--of green mountains against a grayish humid sky, of the bright colors of summer swimsuits and shorts stained with blood or mud, of the simultaneously beautiful and disgusting human body--Lucrecia Martel's oeuvre is about strings of images and the suggestion of potential meanings. Never, however, does the director step over the line and reveal too much to her viewers. As characters come and go from the film's focus, maintaining a chilly distance from the viewer, LA CIÉNAGA unfurls slowly, languorously, and without closure. [More]

Starring: Mercedes Moran, Martin Adjemian, Leonora Balcarce, Silvia Bayle

Starring: Mercedes Moran, Martin Adjemian, Leonora Balcarce, Silvia Bayle, Juan Cruz Bordeu, Noelia Bravo Herrera, Maria Micol Ellero, Andrea Lopez

Director: Lucrecia Martel

Director: Lucrecia Martel
Screenwriter: Lucrecia Martel
Studio: Code Red

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10/12/01
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Cheerless, messy, and slack.

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the most remarkable debut in recent experience

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08/09/02
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News

"La Cienaga" literally means the swamp, and the film feels it: a hothouse atmosphere of heat waves and rainstorms and the mired feeling of life stuck in a social bog.

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03/08/02
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Experiencing this film ultimately becomes as stimulating as watching metal rust.

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02/15/02
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01/22/02
Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
New York Magazine

[Martel's] technique works, often brilliantly, in depicting the hyper-real, unsettling atmosphere of a sometimes normal, potentially violent, mostly sick family.

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01/11/02
Kim Morgan
Kim Morgan
Oregonian

There's a real energy in the way that La Cienaga takes nothing for granted -- except your attention and your intelligence.

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12/13/01
Chris Vognar
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News

La Cienaga is well worth the trouble finding -- and sitting through -- wherever it plays.

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12/09/01
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