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THE HEADLESS WOMAN
2008
Director
Lucrecia Martel
Starring
María Onetto
Claudia Cantero
Ines Efron
Runtime
87 minutes
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A bourgeois middle-aged dentist named Verónica (María Onetto) drives alone on a dirt road, becomes distracted, and runs over something. Immediately she becomes disoriented, unmoored from her identity and reality, like a sleepwalker who’s actually awake. As the week goes on, she becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone: a young boy whose body is found in a roadside canal. Veronica tries to piece together what happened while her husband systematically erases her tracks. A chilling parable about a woman in shock, Lucrecia Martel’s brilliant THE HEADLESS WOMAN explores the intricacies of class and the role of women in a male-dominated society.
“One of the great films of the decade…Trance film, ghost story, and political allegory, the impossibly dense and allusive HEADLESS WOMAN inlays every image with enigma so that its simple tale of a woman seized by the belief that she has committed a crime takes on an air of epistemological riddle.” – James Quandt, Artforum
“In what could be one of the greatest films ever made about the emotional realities of a damaged mind, this giddily disorientating latest from Lucrecia Martel is a work of frenzied genius.” – David Jenkins, Time Out
“One of the great films of the decade…Trance film, ghost story, and political allegory, the impossibly dense and allusive HEADLESS WOMAN inlays every image with enigma so that its simple tale of a woman seized by the belief that she has committed a crime takes on an air of epistemological riddle.” – James Quandt, Artforum
“In what could be one of the greatest films ever made about the emotional realities of a damaged mind, this giddily disorientating latest from Lucrecia Martel is a work of frenzied genius.” – David Jenkins, Time Out