Join us to celebrate the release of the sixth issue of Notebook magazine titled “In the moment of match-strike”. Notebook is a print-only magazine, devoted to the art and the culture of cinema. Created, prepared and published by MUBI.

This screening of Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga is inspired by a piece in this latest issue by writer and filmmaker Durga Chew-Bose, where she pinpoints cinematic moments that evoke a timeless childhood. 

The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.

The release of Lucrecia Martel’sLa Ciénagaheralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a dissolute bourgeois extended family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways that political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of extraordinary tactility, and one of the great contemporary film debuts. -JANUS FILMS