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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Martel again makes everyday perception feel unstable and oppressive, using oblique sound, fragmented attention, and privileged domestic spaces to turn a minor incident into lingering moral unease.
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Why this pick
Its humid provincial atmosphere, densely layered offscreen life, and uneasy adolescent-adult dynamics share La Ciénaga’s talent for finding menace and dark comedy in crowded family routines.
03
Why this pick
A sharply observed household drama in which class boundaries surface through meals, rooms, etiquette, and small humiliations; it matches La Ciénaga’s domestic tension and social acuity.
04
Why this pick
More restrained and tender, but similarly alert to children absorbing adult silences: its patient observation and evocative rural details create a powerful emotional atmosphere without melodrama.
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Why this pick
This slow-burning portrait of a secluded woman in a fading upper-class world shares Martel’s interest in decay, privilege, repression, and the revealing rhythms of domestic space.
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01 / THE STORY
The film tells the story of Mecha (Graciela Borges), a middle-aged woman in her 50s who has several teenagers and a husband Gregorio (Martín Adjemián), who wants to remain looking young. In order to avoid the hot and humid weather of the city, the family spends the summers in their decaying country estate named La Mandrágora. After Mecha falls and injures herself in the film's opening sequence, she remains confined to her bed, and takes to alcoholism to cope with day-to-day life. She resents dealing with her gloomy Indigenous peoples in Argentina servants, whom she accuses of theft and laziness. Mecha's cousin Tali (Mercedes Morán), who lives in a more modest house in town with her husband Rafael (Daniel Valenzuela), makes repeated visits to the estate with her brood of small, noisy children to escape from her own claustrophobic home environment. Before long, the crowded domestic situation in both homes strains the families' nerves, exposing repressed family mysteries and tensions that threaten to erupt into violence.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Mecha
Gregorio
Verónica
Tali
