La Ciénaga

Lucrecia Martel’s debut heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema.

With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a dissolute bourgeois extended family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel.

This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways that political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of extraordinary tactility, and one of the great contemporary film debuts.

A portion of ticket sales will benefit Bringing Eats Across Neighborhood Streets (B.E.A.N.S.), a collective of food and housing advocates.