The Headless Woman
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Starring: Starring: María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Inés Efron, Daniel Genoud
Argentina, 2008, 1 hour 27 minutes, Spanish with English subtitles
Winner FIPRESCI Prize Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival Watch the trailer >>>
Firmly established as one of world cinema’s most distinctive voices, Martel’s atmospheric third film (after La Cienaga, The Holy Girl) centres on Veronica, who, briefly distracted while driving along a dirt back road hits what she thinks was a dog. But later she sees a small handprint on the side of her car. Martel takes us effortlessly inside Veronica’s head as, beset by uncertainty her life starts to unravel. A haunting film about self-preservation that reflects on our collective amnesia about the way the lives of the privileged are based on the suffering of others, this gets under your skin and stays with you for a long time afterwards.
“Stunning” Time Out
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| Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff | 2010-03-05 | 02:30:00 |
| Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff | 2010-03-09 | 18:00:00 |
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