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Switzerland’s Visions du Réel will honor Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel at its 54th edition (April 21-30). She will give a masterclass during the event, which will accompany a retrospective of her work.
Martel’s films, shot with sensual and ambitious cinematography, examine the existential crisis of the Argentinian middle classes, the country’s suffocating social mechanics, and the ghosts of its colonial past. Her films pay great attention to detail, are steeped in a joyous cinephilia, and feature a hybridisation of fiction and reality.
Emilie Bujès, artistic director of Visions du Réel, described Martel as “a vital, rare and extraordinary figure in contemporary film […] who, with each of her films, succeeds in translating universes with audacity, in composing an adventurous, troubling and singular body of work, one that constantly challenges global cinema.”
Martel broke through in 2001 with her first feature, “La Ciénaga, which won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Switzerland’s Visions du Réel will honor Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel at its 54th edition (April 21-30). She will give a masterclass during the event, which will accompany a retrospective of her work.
Martel’s films, shot with sensual and ambitious cinematography, examine the existential crisis of the Argentinian middle classes, the country’s suffocating social mechanics, and the ghosts of its colonial past. Her films pay great attention to detail, are steeped in a joyous cinephilia, and feature a hybridisation of fiction and reality.
Emilie Bujès, artistic director of Visions du Réel, described Martel as “a vital, rare and extraordinary figure in contemporary film […] who, with each of her films, succeeds in translating universes with audacity, in composing an adventurous, troubling and singular body of work, one that constantly challenges global cinema.”
Martel broke through in 2001 with her first feature, “La Ciénaga, which won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
- 12/16/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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