The mystery of Lucrecia Martel’s ‘The Headless Woman’
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Mark Olsen writes, for the Los Angeles Times:
It’s an all-too-familiar situation: You’re driving along, slightly distracted, and then a bump in the road brings that sickening feeling.
So begins ‘The Headless Woman,’ the third feature from Argentine writer-director Lucrecia Martel, opening in New York City on Wednesday and in Los Angeles on Sept. 4. A woman (played with masterful opacity by Maria Onetto) just keeps driving, and as the film unfolds it becomes increasingly unclear as to whether she hit something (a dog? a young boy?). Nevertheless, Onetto’s character becomes increasingly disconnected from her upper-middle-class life, having seemingly left behind something of herself on that dusty stretch of empty road.
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-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City