La ciénaga
Day drinking, polluted pools, ghostly grandmas, girl crushes, rabid dogs, apparitions of the Virgin Mary: it’s a telenovela, Lucrecia Martel-style. That means the hauntings feel political, dissecting the forced oblivion of Argentina’s white middle class through drunken housewife Mecha and her sister Tali. Teenagers Momi and Isabel may be the only hope...