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The Swamp Details

2001

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Starring	Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Martín Adjemián, Leonora Balcarce
Director	Lucrecia Martel
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

The Swamp

A sober portrait of middle-class torpor and decadence, Argentina director Lucrecia Martel’s (The Headless Woman, La niña 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.

Starring	Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Martín Adjemián, Leonora Balcarce, Silvia Baylé, Sofia Bertolotto
Director	Lucrecia Martel
Studio	FUSION MEDIA SALES
Original title	La Cienaga
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 43 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Spanish
Subtitles	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 2001 To Rent: DVD: 06 Dec 2010

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  I did not enjoy this film. There did not appear to be a plot and I felt that it was an absolute waste of time.
  
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  A sober portrait of middle-class torpor and decadence, Argentina director Lucrecia Martel’s (The Headless Woman, La niña 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 ...