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Aug 22, 2019 · Synopsis: While Verónica, a white, provincial middle-class dentist, is driving along a rural road, she hits something or someone, a dog or a dark-skinned child – neither she nor the viewer can be sure – but doesn’t stop to find out what it is.
Almost immediately, in Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman (2009), the road in the prologue—Indigenous children chasing each other with their dog across the road, down into a culvert—becomes the site of perceptual uncertainty and the source of moral questioning that foregrounds the film.
Trance film, ghost story, and political allegory, the impossibly dense and allusive Headless 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.
Aug 18, 2009 · A full appreciation of Lucrecia Martel’s elegant, rain-soaked film, “The Headless Woman,” requires the concentration and eye for detail of a forensic detective.
Dec 13, 2009 · From the murk of “The Headless Woman,” a political allegory emerges: the so-called dirty war in Argentina, under Jorge Videla’s dictatorship in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, was marked ...
Jun 24, 2019 · In Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza, 2008), the protagonist bears her guilt so singularly you almost wish it were contagious. What might history look like if guilty minds unspooled en masse?
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.
Feb 15, 2010 · This article suggests an oblique reading of The Headless Woman (2008), the latest film by Lucrecia Martel, a founder member of the so-called New Argentine Cinema and one of the major stylists of contemporary cinema.
Sep 26, 2008 · After hitting a young boy—or was it a dog?—with her car while reaching for a cellphone, our middle-aged bourgeois dentist Veronica (Maria Onetto) pauses, drives on, and presumably loses her mental bearings.
Aug 21, 2009 · Argentine Director Lucrecia Martel makes this world of priviledge seem mundane, even after Verónica (María Onetto) becomes a “woman on the verge” when she hits something (an animal?) with her car.
