Rent Zama (2017)

Dull and Pointless - Zama review by MB

I persevered and watched in three instalments throughout the evening. It is just too boring to sit all the way through being nearly two hours long but feels so much more. The storyline (if you can call it that) is somewhat disjointed and actually meaningless. It is probably fair to say that you couldn't be blamed if you thought it was a collection of random outtakes strung together. Did I miss the point of this film somewhere? - I don't think so.

Brilliant and disturbing - Zama review by TE

This film needs a 5 star review on here to counter the incomprehensible 1 star ratings!

Lucrecia Martel is rightly regarded as one of the world's top film directors and this period drama enhances her reputation even further.

There is a patient build towards the final, hallucinatory section, which has echoes of Apocalypse Now and the violence and misunderstandings that characterise the clash of European imperialists and native peoples.

Every detail of the film is carefully crafted and linked to the wider events. A triumph of world cinema.

Slower than Wood - Zama review by IG

Gave up on this, subtitles are not that easy to read, plot meanders around with some vague attempt at surrealism, and, overall the subject matter is fairly dull and uninteresting. There are moments that entertain, but, not enough to hold our interest to the bitter end.

BORING WASTE OF TIME - Zama review by DF

Slow with plot not existent and ending absurd. Don,t both with this film.Acting poor .Storyline appears to a man who just does not want to be where he is.

Be careful what you wish for. - Zama review by CH

The colonisation of South America by Spanish and Portugese is well known history, often narrated as, and portrayed as a swashbuckling pursuit of gold and land. Let this (admittedly) slow burn film tell another story of swampy malarial hell on earth with administrative ennui seeming to being the enemy. A strange and shocking film, but for that, you will have to stay with it to the very end.