| Tuesday 25th May at 8 p.m. |
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The Headless Woman / La mujer sin cabeza
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| Argentina/France/Italy/Spain 2008 | 87 mins | 12A |
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While hurriedly driving to meet her lover Juan Manuel, the distracted Verónica collides with something and suffers a momentary trauma- induced breakdown. After composing herself, she continues with her journey, but her return to normal life is disrupted by a concern that the object she hit may have been human. The latest film from Argentine director Lucrecia Martel, she of The Swamp and The Holy Girl, compellingly explores the emotional self-destruction that Verónica experiences as her shallow life begins to crumble under a weight of self-doubt and guilt at what she may have inadvertently done. A visually and thematically rich experience, constructed around a gripping central performance from Maria Onetto. |
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Lucrecia Martel
Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel began her film career in 1988 with a number of short films, including the award-winning Rey Muerto / Dead King (1995). Her debut feature, La ciénaga / The Swamp (2001) won her international acclaim and a number of awards, including several for Martel herself. The film was screened by us in a previous season. She folowed this with La niña santa / The Holy Girl (2004), which was nominated for the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 2005, a year before she herself was a member of the Cannes jury. The Headless Woman was also nominated for the Palme D'Or.
Watch the trailer for The Headless Woman / La mujer sin cabeza
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| Food, Inc. |
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| director |
| Lucrecia Martel |
| starring |
| María Onetto |
| Claudia Cantero |
| César Bordón |
| Daniel Genoud |
| Guillermo Arengo |
| Inés Efron |
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