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In “La �侱é�Բ�����,” even the summer is an unequally distributed resource, its malaise laying bare deeper social ills.

You could watch “La �侱é�Բ�����” in an air-conditioned room in the chilly depths of winter, and you’d still find yourself wiping sweat from your brow, swatting at imaginary mosquitoes and reaching for a glass of cold wine.

There’s no straightforward narrative arc in “La �侱é�Բ�����”; instead, the oppressive heat is the plot, and Martel studies the instincts that it unleashes in her petty, middle-class characters.

"When I was a small boy, he would put me on Cienaga's steam locomotives, that don't exist anymore," he said.

If Martel’s three previous masterpieces La �侱é�Բ�����, The Holy Girl, and The Headless Woman hadn’t already done the trick, Zama would confirm her as one of the world’s essential filmmakers.