The Headless Woman

EXCLUSIVE LIMITED RUN! ► “The work of a genius, or at very least one of the most talented filmmakers in the world” (Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian), The Headless Woman is the mesmerizing third feature by Argentine director Lucrecia Martel (La Ciénaga, The Holy Girl). Maria Onetto has the lead as Verónica, a middle-aged, bottle-blonde dentist in Argentina’s northwest provinces who may or may not have struck and killed something — or someone — while driving home one night. Verónica bangs her head in the process, and spends the film in a woozy, disorientated, concussive state, while the men in her pampered, privileged family apparently collude to erase all traces of the accident. The film’s dreamy hyper-reality and moody, mysterious metaphysics have drawn comparisons to Luis Buñuel, David Lynch, the Michael Haneke of Caché and the Antonioni of L’Avventura and Blow Up. “As great as any film this decade . . . Headless masterfully enters the realms of conspiracy thriller, trance film, ghost story, and political allegory . . . Not to be missed by anyone interested in world cinema” (James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario). “A brilliant, maddeningly enigmatic puzzle of a movie . . . A full appreciation of Martel’s elegant, rain-soaked film requires the concentration and eye for detail of a forensic detective. . . The more closely you study The Headless Woman, the deeper and more unsettling are its mysteries” (Stephen Holden, New York Times). Colour, 35mm, in Spanish with English subtitles. 87 mins.