"Director: Lucrecia Martel"

• Zama | DVD | (10/09/2018) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lucrecia Martel's first film in 10 years premiered in Venice 2017 to huge acclaim. Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit. It is adapted from Antonio di Benedetto s 1956 classic of Argentinean literature, recently translated into English

• Zama | Blu Ray | (10/09/2018) from £9.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lucrecia Martel's first film in 10 years premiered in Venice 2017 to huge acclaim. Zama, an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer from the town in which he is, to a better place. His situation is delicate. He must ensure that nothing overshadows his transfer. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit. It is adapted from Antonio di Benedetto s 1956 classic of Argentinean literature, recently translated into English

• Headless Woman | DVD | (12/07/2010) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Acclaimed Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel steps back behind the camera for her third feature film with a mysterious and intriguing tale of a bourgeois woman (Maria Onetto) who when driving alone on a dirt road becomes distracted and runs over something. In the days following this jarring incident she is dazed and emotionally disconnected from the people and events in her life. She becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone. The police confirm that there were no accidents reported in the area and everything returns to normal until a gruesome discovery is made. Lucrecia Martel's third feature examines the intricacies of class status and the role of women in a male-dominated society.

• La Nina Santa | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel's film centres on two young girls and a scandal in their small town.

• La Cienaga (The Swamp) | DVD | (06/12/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A sober portrait of middle-class torpor and decadence Argentina director Lucrecia Martel's (The Headless Woman La ni'a santa) debut feature offers a glimpse into her country's dysfunctional class dynamics and tortured race relations. The film tells the story of two families' summer holiday spent in a decaying estate in the mountains. Physical details accumulate: the insistent clinking of ice cubes in glasses the scrape of metal chairs on a concrete patio people splayed in beds trying to sleep through the humidity. Before long the crowded domestic situation in both homes strains the families' nerves exposing repressed family mysteries and tensions that threaten to erupt into violence.