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Film Society | Screening of 沼泽 La Ciénaga (2001) | Female Directors Series | Feb. 5

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“A house suffocating in heat, noise, and decay”
Thursday, 2.05, 7:15pm
Library 2101B -> (film appreciation room)
Presented by DKU film society this week, La Ciénaga (2001) announces Lucrecia Martel as one of cinema’s most radical new voices. Set in the stagnant summer of an Argentine bourgeois family, the film replaces plot with atmosphere, letting sound, gesture, and proximity speak louder than dialogue. Restored in unsettling clarity, it is a portrait of social paralysis and moral inertia, where bodies drift, boundaries blur, and danger lingers just beneath the surface. A quiet, corrosive masterpiece that turns everyday domestic life into something deeply, inescapably ominous.