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Short takes and tomatoes

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Elissa Suh
Aug 30, 2022
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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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