Round 1: Tossup 9

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 if what she killed was a dog or a pottery worker’s child. The cacophony of pool chairs being dragged on metal tiles dominates an opening scene by this director, in which old people stagger like zombies towards a wine glass. 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, swampy estate in a film shot in this director’s hometown of Salta. For 10 points, The Headless Woman, Zama, and La Ciénaga (“see-AY-nah-gah”) are films by what Argentine director? (10[1])■END■

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