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 Cumbia is the only fundamental constant in “Magic Farm,” the sophomore effort by Argentine-born Spanish filmmaker Amalia Ulman, a sweeping and biting satire about odious, privileged Americans adrift in a remote rural Argentine town. The group of foreigners works for a Vice-like media company dedicated to exploiting unconventional stories from around the world to create sensational video content. The latest target of their cultural mining operation is Super Carlitos, a flamboyant singer known for wearing bunny ears, who resides in the town of San Cristóbal. Unbeknownst to inept producer Jeff (Alex Wolff, of “Hereditary” fame), a place with that name could be anywhere in Latin America. With the same uncomfortably dry sense of humor she displayed in her debut feature, “El Planeta,” in which she and her biological mother played a financially struggling mother and daughter, Ulman casts herself as Elena, the camerawoman and performer. There's an inevitable metatextual quality to her cha...