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The Headless Woman / La mujer sin cabeza Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Lucrecia Martel, Country: Argentina/France/Italy/Spain, Release: 2008, Runtime: 87 “The exacting formalism and beauty is undeniable…a tour de force of economical storytelling” – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times “The third feature by Lucrecia Martel, leading director of the Argentine renaissance, is her strongest to date – this brilliantly edited, purposefully disorienting comedy about a middle-aged woman's post-car-accident confusion is the movie I'm most looking forward to revisiting.” – J. Hoberman, Village Voice A middle-aged woman (Maria Onetto) is driving alone on a dirt road. Suddenly, she hits something - perhaps a dog, perhaps a boy, perhaps something more mysterious. Her phantom accident jars her and Lucrecia Martel’s challenging, hyper-acute third feature onto a different perceptual plane: Everything about the ordinary world feels new, disconnected, and very, very strange, to her and to us. Martel’s rare gift for social melodrama built from sonic and spatial textures, behavioral nuances, and an unerringly brilliant sense of the joys and tensions and endless reserves of suppressed emotion of family life is pushed to another level of creative daring with The Headless Woman. The result is an excitingly splintered cinematic mosaic, at once a portrait of a family, a social universe, and, thanks to Onetto’s stunning performance, a woman in a state of believably disoriented distress. Preceded by I Hear Your Scream / Ahendu nde sapukai: A slow-burning, real-time meditation on mourning in long shot. Pablo Lamar, Argentina, 2008; 11m Lucrecia Martel b. 1966, Salta, Argentina 2004 The Holy Girl NYFF 2001 The Swamp NYFF

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