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La Ciénaga is a Argentin film of genre Drama directed by Lucrecia Martel released in USA on 3 october 2001 with Graciela Borges
La Ciénaga (2001)
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Add to a movie listLa Ciénaga (English: The Swamp) is a 2001 Argentine, Spanish, and French film, written and directed by Lucrecia Martel. The film was executive produced by Ana Aizenberg, Diego Guebel, Mario Pergolini, and produced by Lita Stantic. The picture features Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán, Martín Adjemián, Daniel Valenzuela, among others.
The picture is set in the high plains of northwestern Argentina and portrays the life of a self-pitying Argentine bourgeois family.
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The film tells the story of Mecha (Graciela Borges), a middle-aged woman in her 50s who has several teenagers. Her husband Gregorio (Martín Adjemián) wants to remain looking young, and both of them have to deal with their gloomy Amerindian servants, whom Mecha accuses of theft and laziness. Both Mecha and Gregorio take to drinking to cope with day-to-day living.Actors
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