In Lav Diaz’s ‘Magellan,’ conquest is death (opens in new tab)

A cross between The Lost World and Zama, Magellan is less a biopic about the Portuguese explorer (played by Gael García Bernal) and his quest to find trade routes to the East than a study of power politics: who rules, who doesn’t, who belongs, who doesn’t. At the top sits God. Just below is the […]