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The Headless Woman
(La mujer sin cabeza)

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Directed by Lucrecia Martel.
With María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón.
Argentina, 2008, 35mm, color, 87 min.
Spanish with English subtitles.

The mysterious and austere final installment of Martel’s Salta trilogy moves away from the layered narratives of her earlier films to adopt the intense, almost hallucinatory, first-person perspective of a successful dentist uncertain of her responsibility for a hit-and-run accident that may or may not have taken place. In tune with the heroine’s intense post-traumatic state, The Headless Woman lingers on the puzzling clues that emerge in a miasma of guilt and denial that gradually implicates everyone around her. Martel’s characteristically minimal story is also her darkest and most explicitly political statement, offering a pointed critique of class inequity and bourgeois indifference.

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Three Films by Lucrecia Martel

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Deep Water. The Cinema of Lucrecia Martel