Zama

A career stuck in bureaucratic purgatory meets gothic paranoia over colonial decay. A disgraced 18th-century Spanish officer waits endlessly for reassignment, trapped between mounting social slights and his own unraveling. The slow rot of empire becomes his mirror.

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Lucrecia Martel directed Zama in 2017. See Lucrecia Martel's full filmography, where to start with Lucrecia Martel, or where to go after you've seen everything by Lucrecia Martel.

Zama was released in 2017 (ES original-language production), with a runtime of 115 minutes.