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Lucrecia Martel

“I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.”—Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

Even if her films are quite different from my work both thematically and stylistically, Lucrecia Martel has been a constant source of inspiration for me, particularly her tactile, personal, and uncompromising approach to cinema, and the way she invites us to rethink reality. She is not interested in asserting

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