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In the light of a novel composed by Antonio Di Benedetto in 1956, the film takes after Don Diego de Zama, an officer in the Spanish armed force from South America. Zama works in a small community and he has a dream to move to a superior place where he can make incredible things. A long time pass by and Zama still in his place. When he gets exhausted from waiting he chooses to join a group of fighters that pursue a hazardous criminal.
Martel masterfully creates a vivid, sensuous, and unbearable world from which Zama and the audience can't wait to escape. Yet we also can't seem to take our eyes off it.
This gently surreal, impossibly lush existential nightmare is almost punishingly languorous, but the rewards are many for those who vibe with its peculiar rhythms.