![]() ![]() Lucrecia Martel's screenplay for the film won the Sundance Institute/NHK Award in 1999 this award honors and supports emerging independent filmmakers. Before long, the crowded domestic situation in both homes strains the families' nerves, exposing repressed family mysteries and tensions that threaten to erupt into violence. Mecha's cousin Tali, who lives in a modest house in town with her husband Rafael, makes repeated visits with her brood of young, noisy children to escape from her claustrophobic home. She resents her gloomy Amerindian servants, whom she accuses of theft and laziness. ![]() After Mecha falls and injures herself, she is confined to her bed, and takes to drinking. In order to avoid the hot and humid weather of the city, the family spends the summers in their decaying country estate named La Mandrágora. Mecha, a woman in her 50s with several teenage children and a husband, Gregorio, wants to remain looking young. Also in 2022, the film was included in Spanish magazine Fotogramas 's list of the 20 best Argentine films of all time. ![]() In 2022, it was selected as the greatest film of Argentine cinema in a poll organized by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, which was presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. The film is set in the high plains of northwestern Argentina and portrays the life of a self-pitying Argentine bourgeois family. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán, Martín Adjemián and Daniel Valenzuela. La ciénaga ( English: The Swamp) is a 2001 internationally co-produced comedy-drama film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel in her feature directorial debut. ![]()
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