“The Headless Woman” (2008, Lucrecia Martel)

The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel, 2008, 87 min, Argentina, Spanish w/ English subtitles, Color, DCP)

Martel’s extraordinary third film gets inside the head of a successful middle-aged dentist who might have accidentally run over a child…or a dog…or nothing at all. The masterful film—shades of Hitchcock’s Vertigo—continues Martel’s explorations into the hypocrisies of Argentina’s bourgeoisie.

— Introduced by Prof. Antonio Viego (Program in Literature)

“A masterly, disturbing and deeply mysterious film.”
—Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

“Brilliant, maddeningly enigmatic puzzle of a movie.”
—Stephen Holden, New York Times

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