Landmarks

Watched at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.

A powerful documentary about the roots of colonialism amongst the indigenous communities and the surrounding conflicts of murder, indegineity, and politics. Lucrecia Martel approach on the subjects carefully, yet tenderly. Exploring it's themes through it's roots, the murder of Javier Chocobar, and it's conflict using great ways of dialogue and presentation, and demonstrating it's themes and tone with a balance and appropriate touch.

Martel is very well-known for her experimental-like style and approach, and what she was able to do on crafting this documentary is perfect. Each imagery, conversation, sound designs and movement observations felt personal, slow yet powerful, and engaging to explore. How indigenous communities have long been through conflicts and problems that they don't deserve to be in due to the effects of negative aspects of human society and beings.

Lucrecia Martel has proven to be one of the best Argentinian filmmakers of our current times, and Martel once again shines with this documentary.