Browning Cinema
Classics in the Browning
Directed by Lucrecia Martel
With Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
Not Rated, 115 minutes, DCP
In Spanish with English subtitles
Argentine writer Antonio di Benedetto wrote the novel Zama in 1956, and nearly sixty years later director Lucrecia Martel pumps the story set in the 1790s full of gasoline and hands us the matches. Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is colonial middle management, working for the Spanish Crown in South America. He waits and plots and then waits and plots more for a letter from the king that will grant him a transfer from his remote town, in which he is stagnating, to a better place. He is forced to submissively accept every task entrusted to him by successive governors, who come and go as he stays behind, and unsurprisingly displaces that frustration on indigenous people.
Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB Students.
Co-presented by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema and the Notre Dame Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
Event Dates
Sunday, October 12, 2025 - 4:00 PM
