Lucrecia Martel

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Lucrecia Martel (2008)

Lucrecia Martel (born December 14, 1966 in Salta ) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter .

biography

Martel was born in 1966 in the capital of the province of Salta in north-western Argentina and began to capture her family on video as a teenager . At the age of twenty, Martel moved to Buenos Aires to study communication design . She studied at Avellaneda Experimental (AVEX) and attended an animation course at the National Film School for Experiment and Directing (ENERC). At the end of the 1980s, she and her fellow students began making first short films . During this time, a number of other young Argentine directors began to make a name for themselves, including Adrián Caetano ,Jorge Gaggero , Sandra Gugliotta , Ulises Rosell and Juan Bautista Stagnaro . After the animated films 56, El ("Er", 1988) and Piso 24 ("24. Floor", 1989) and the 24-minute short film Besos rojos ("Red Kisses", 1991), Martel took over directing the documentary series from 1995 onwards DNI ("identity card"), which she also produced herself. In the same year, the short film Rey muerto ("Dead King") was made, with which Lucrecia Martel was able to attract international attention for the first time. In the 12-minute work, she took on the manners of her home region and told a story about vengeance and violence in north-western Argentina. For this Martel was awarded at the 1995 Havana Film Festival . A year later Besos rojos was also in the competition at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival , where he had to admit defeat to the 20-minute contribution Sønnen by Norwegian Ketil Kern .

Six years after the success of Besos rojos , Lucrecia Martel made her first feature film , for which she also wrote the script. La Ciénaga - Morast tells the story of two women (played by Graciela Borges and Mercedes Morán ) in their fifties who spend their holidays with their families in Salta, Martel's hometown. The film, which was rated by critics as an elegant study of the decadence of the Argentine middle class, was featured in the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival competition and was awarded the Alfred Bauer Prize for the best first work. Martel also received the awards for Best Director at the Havana Film Festival and the Association of Argentine Film Critics, and was praised by Pedro Almodóvar . The renowned Spanish director counted La Ciénaga - Morast among his favorite films of 2001. In 2002 Martel was appointed to the international jury of the Berlin Film Festival, where she and Mira Nair and Oskar Roehler ex aequo Paul Greengrass ' Bloody Sunday and the cartoon Spirited Away from Hayao Miyazaki to the Golden Bears.

2004 followed Lucrecia Martel's second feature film La niña santa - The holy girl , produced by Pedro Almodóvar and set in a hotel in her hometown, which the filmmaker had known since childhood. It tells the story of the young Amalia (played by María Alché ), who lives in a run-down thermal hotel with her mother (Mercedes Morán from La Ciénaga - Morast ). When an ENT medical congress was held on site, the 15-year-old girl began contacting the pedophile doctor Dr. Dedicated to Jano ( Carlos Belloso ) in order to save him not entirely unselfishly. The filmmaker's work, who described La Niña santa as a “fairy tale of good and evil” , competed in the 2004 Cannes Film Festival , but was defeated by Michael Moore 's Palms d'Or Fahrenheit 9/11 . Two years later, Lucrecia Martel, who has established herself as one of the few directors in South American cinema, was on the jury of Ken Loach's war drama The Wind That at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival , along with Wong Kar-Wai , Patrice Leconte and Elia Suleiman Shakes the Barley named best film of the festival.

In 2008 Martel was represented for the second time in the competition at the 61st Cannes Film Festival with the film Die Frau ohne Kopf ( La mujer sin cabeza , 2008) . The drama tells the story of a woman whose life is thrown out of balance after a seemingly harmless car accident, but received no award. In the same year she was appointed to the competition jury of the 65th Venice Film Festival under the chairmanship of German director Wim Wenders .

From 2009 to 2010 Martel tried in vain to make a science fiction film based on the Argentinian comic El Eternauta .

It wasn't until 2017 that she presented her next feature film, Zama , at the Venice Film Festival . It is based on the novel Zama waits by Antonio di Benedetto and tells about the life of the administrative officer Don Diego de Zama, who is waiting to be transferred from a remote coastal town - possibly Asunción - in 1790 . Zama is Martel's first feature film that is not set in her hometown of Salta and has a male lead. It was co-produced by Pedro Almodóvar and was the contribution with which Argentina applied for the Foreign Oscar in 2017. Zama was voted one of the Best Films of 2018 by Sight & Sound and won a number of awards.

In 2018 Martel began work on a documentary film about the chief of the Diaguita Indians of Chuschagasta , Javier Chocobar, who was murdered in 2008 in the northwestern Argentine province of Tucumán .

In 2019 she was selected as the jury chairman of the 76th Venice Film Festival . In the same year she designed a two-minute short film as a trailer for the Viennale .

Filmography

Director

  • 1988: 56, El (short film)
  • 1989: Piso 24 (short film)
  • 1991: Besos rojos (short film)
  • 1995: DNI (TV series)
  • 1995: Rey muerto (short film)
  • 2001: La Ciénaga - Morast (La Ciénaga)
  • 2004: La niña santa - The holy maiden (La niña santa)
  • 2008: The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza)
  • 2010: Nueva Argirópolis (short film)
  • 2010: Pescados (short film)
  • 2011: Muta (short film)
  • 2017: Zama
  • 2019: AI (short film)

script

Awards

Asociación de Cronistas Cinematrográficos de la Argentina

  • 2002: Best first work , nominated in the categories Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for La Ciénaga - Morast
  • 2009: nominated for Best Director for Die Frau ohne Kopf

Berlinale

Cannes International Film Festival

  • 2004: nominated for the Palme d'Or for the best film for La niña santa - The holy girl
  • 2008: Nominated for the Golden Palm for Best Film for The Woman Without a Head

Clarin Entertainment Awards

  • 2004: Best director for La niña santa - The holy girl

International Festival of New Latin American Films

  • 1995: Best short film for Rey muerto
  • 2001: Best director and Gran Coral for La Ciénaga - Morast

Latin American MTV Movie Awards

  • 2002: nominated in the category MTV South Feed (mostly Argentina) - Favorite Film for La Ciénaga - Morast

International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

  • 1996: nominated in the Best Short Film category for Rey muerto

Lima Latin American Film Festival

  • 2008: Critics' Prize for The Headless Woman

Rio International Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

  • 1999: NHK Award for La Ciénaga - Morast

São Paulo International Film Festival

  • 2004: Critics' Prize - Honorable Mention for La niña santa - The Holy Maiden

Toulouse Latin America Film Festival

  • 2001: Grand Prix and French Critics' Prize as a new discovery for La Ciénaga - Morast

Uruguay International Film Festival

  • 2001: Award for the best first work - Honorable Mention for La Ciénaga - Morast

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Film profile of La mujer sin cabeza on the Official Cannes Film Festival website (accessed May 17, 2008)
  2. ↑ cf. Vivarelli, Nick: Venice Film Festival announces Slate ( Memento from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), July 29, 2008 (accessed July 30, 2008)
  3. ↑ Jordan Ruimy: Lucrecia Martel Talks 'Zama,' Her Lost Sci-Fi Project & More. In: The Playlist. October 9, 2017, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Patrick Seyboth: Critique of Zama. In: epd-film.de. June 22, 2018, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Zama. In: IMDb. Retrieved December 23, 2019 .
  6. ^ Maria Delgado: Film of the week: Zama makes slow jest of a mouldering colonial mandarin | Sight & Sound. In: bfi.org.uk. British Film Institute, December 28, 2018, accessed December 23, 2019 .
  7. ^ J. Hoberman: Lucrecia Martel, una directora que confunde y emociona. Clarín from April 18, 2018
  8. ↑ J. Hoberman: Lucrecia Martel, una directora que desconcierta y estremece a sus seguidores. The New York Times April 16, 2018
  9. ↑ Biennale Cinema 2019: Lucrecia Martel President of the Venezia 76 International Jury . at labiennale.org, June 24, 2019 (accessed June 24, 2019).
  10. ↑ Viennale Trailer 2019 by Lucrecia Martel. In: Viennale. Retrieved June 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Martel, Lucrecia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Salta , Salta , Argentina