Hot hot heat
Short takes and tomatoes
As tribute to our waning summer: four movies concerned with sweltering heat, alongside four recent summer meals.
LA CIÉNAGA
Lucrecia Martel, 2001
In Argentina, a bourgeoisie family summers at a desiccated country estate: the parents drink, the children flail, the indigenous servants bear the brunt. The contours of this film are fuzzy yet palpable, menace …
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