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Feb 21, 2010 · The Headless Woman probably mystified as many viewers in Cannes as any premiere since Antonioni's L'avventura in 1960 – and I suspect that Lucrecia Martel's film too will go down in history as a ...
Feb 24, 2018 · Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel takes a formal approach to the chaos and confusion of mirky events with The Headless Woman. In the film, the protagonist finds herself unable to make sense of anything, and the audience is made to feel the same way. The Headless Woman begins with Veronica (María Onetto) driving down a deserted road.
Dec 15, 2009 · For, indeed, in "The Headless Woman," the things that are NOT said carry far more weight, thematically and psychologically, than the things that are. And, unlike in the vast majority of movies, the drama derives not so much from a densely plotted narrative as from a scrupulously detached and nonjudgmental observation of human activity and behavior.
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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 ...
Aug 19, 2009 · Martel’s third feature as writer-director, The Headless Woman, sees her return once again to her native Salta, where her previous two movies have also been set. The film’s protagonist is Verónica (María Onetto), a glamorous middle-aged dentist whose comfortable, untroubled existence is disrupted when she runs over something in the road.
The Headless Woman is a 2008 Argentine psychological thriller art film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel and starring María Onetto. The plot revolves around Vero (Onetto), who hits something while driving on a deserted road near Salta.
