The Swamp

During a long summer in the Argentine city of Salta, two middle-class families slowly decay within their own lives, doing nothing to change them. Lucrecia Martel's extraordinary debut feature captures the decline of a privileged class with a clinical and merciless gaze, using heat, a muddy swimming pool, and meaningless conversations as metaphors for moral stagnation. A film that changes the way you see cinema.

Lucrecia Martel's first film is one of the most important works in Latin American cinema. It has no conventional plot: it's an immersion into a unique and unsettling atmosphere.