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Heat of the Moment: La Ciénaga (12A)

,Barbican Cinema 3
young people sunbathing

A bourgeois extended family converge on the crumbling family estate over one hot, sticky summer.

At the centre of La Cienaga is a terrible brackish swimming pool, full of murky green water and assorted debris. The teenage children come and go, but the parents are a permanent fixture, sitting around it quietly getting soused. 


Ice cubes tinkle in a glass. Cicadas chirp. A chair is dragged across the patio. There is thunder. Against a background of oppressive humidity, small events accumulate leaving us with the dread feeling that it can only be so long before someone gets hurt. 


A film that, in the words of the New York Times, “perspires from the screen”, this first feature by Argentine director Lucretia Martel (The Headless Woman) is one of the great contemporary debuts

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Argentina/France/Spain/Japan 2001 Dir Lucrecia Martel 100 min 35 mm presentation

Screens with: Melting (US 1965 Dir Thom Andersen 6 min) a short film, from the director of Los Angeles Plays Itself, showing the disintegration of a strawberry sundae. 

Barbican Cinema 3

Location
Barbican Cinema 2 & 3 are located on Beech Street, a short walk from the Barbican’s Silk Street entrance. From Silk Street, you’ll see a zebra crossing that will take you across the road to the venue. 

Address
Beech Street
London
EC2Y 8DS

Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.