35mm

The Headless Woman

La mujer sin cabeza
Lucrecia Martel
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The Female Gaze

July 26 - August 9, 2018

Barbara Alvarez imparts a restrained—and very strange—spatial texture to Martel’s excitingly splintered third feature, about a woman (María Onetto) in a state of phenomenological distress following a mysterious road accident.

DIRECTOR
Lucrecia Martel
YEAR
2008
COUNTRY
Argentina / France / Italy / Spain
RUNTIME
87 minutes
LANGUAGE
Spanish with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm
ORIGINAL TITLE
La mujer sin cabeza

DP Barbara Alvarez imparts a restrained—and very strange—spatial texture to Lucrecia Martel’s excitingly splintered third feature, about a woman (a stunning María Onetto) in a state of phenomenological distress following a mysterious road accident. Martel’s rare gift for building social melodrama from sonic and spatial textures, behavioral nuances, and an unerringly brilliant sense of the joys, tensions, and endless reserves of suppressed emotion lurking within the familial structure is here pushed to another level of creative daring. An NYFF46 selection. 35mm print courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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