By Glenn Heath Jr. – SDCityBeat.com – Photo: Zama.
Top on the list will be Zama, Lucrecia Martel’s return to filmmaking after a nearly 10-year hiatus. This rigorous period epic based on the 1956 novel written by Antonio di Benedetto exposes the crumbling confidence of one disillusioned magistrate (Daniel Giménez Cacho) who is slowly going crazy in a backwater Argentine colony sometime in the 18th century.
