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This director’s motif of “immersion” inspired a film’s repeated close-ups on a CRT showing a news report about a Marian apparition on a water tank. The protagonist of a film by this director washes out her bright blonde hair dye to avoid suspicion for a hit-and-run, despite being unsure herself (15[1])if what she killed (-5[1])was a (15[1])dog or a pottery worker’s child. (15[1])The cacophony of pool chairs being dragged on metal tiles dominates an opening scene by this director, in which old people (15[1])stagger like zombies towards a wine glass. (15[1])After being told not to worry about directing action scenes, this filmmaker declined Marvel’s offer for Black Widow. In 2017, this director adapted an Antonio (*) di Benedetto novel about a Spanish bureaucrat’s secluded tenure in Paraguay. Two bourgeois families waste away at a decrepit, (10[1])swampy estate (10[1])in a film shot (10[1])in this director’s hometown of Salta. For 10 points, The Headless Woman, Zama, and La Ciénaga (10[1])(“see-AY-nah-gah”) are films by what Argentine director? (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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