La Ciénaga (2001) on Netflix
Summer in Salta: Mecha drinks by the pool at La Mandrágora, her rundown country estate, with her husband Gregorio. Drunk, she falls and hurts herself; her cousin Tali's family comes from town.
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Plot summary
Mecha escapes the summer heat at La Mandrágora, the rundown country estate she keeps in Salta, where she and her husband Gregorio lie by the pool drinking wine. Inside, their daughters Momi and Verónica rest on a bed. Momi says her mother means to dismiss Isabel, an Amerindian servant, over towels she believes the woman takes. Drunk, Mecha falls and hurts herself, and someone drives her to a doctor. Word of the accident reaches her cousin Tali and Tali's husband Rafael. Once a doctor has seen their son Luciano, they set out for the estate.
Cast
- Noelia Bravo Herreraas Agustina
- Maria Micol Elleroas Mariana
- Andrea Lópezas Isabel
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about La Ciénaga (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- To find the child actors for La ciénaga, director Lucrecia Martel held 2,400 auditions, recording 1,600 of them on video in a garage near her home in Salta, Argentina.
- In 2022, La ciénaga was picked as the greatest film of Argentine cinema in a poll run by the magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.
- Lucrecia Martel's screenplay won the Sundance Institute/NHK Award in 1999, but when the jury urged her to restructure it around one or two protagonists, she kept its diffuse shape instead.
- Martel cast Graciela Borges as Mecha after a friend showed her a television programme the actress was in; Martel said she realised she had found her character.
- Lucrecia Martel has said in interviews that the story of her debut film La ciénaga is based on memories of her own family.
