There will surely be many commentaries on Zama as a film about the politics of colonialism, past and present: as such, it can be networked with a lively range of pertinent comparisons, from Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) to, more recently, James Gray’s The Lost City of Z (2016) and—closer to Martel in style and tone—Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja (2014).