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Headless Woman, The

Universal acclaim
Based on 10 critic reviews
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Based on 15 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Mystery | Suspense/Thriller
Written by: Lucrecia Martel
Directed by: Lucrecia Martel
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 19, 2009
DVD: December 15, 2009
Running Time: 87 minutes, Color
Origin: Argentina | France | Italy | Spain
Language(s): Spanish
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Maria Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Ines Efron, Daniel Genoud, and Cesar Bordon
A mysterious and intriguing tale of a woman who may have killed someone or something while driving on a dirt road. Dazed and confused, she tries to piece together what happened, while her husband systematically tries to erase her tracks. (Strand Releasing)
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What The Critics Said
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The New York Times Stephen Holden
Brilliant, maddeningly enigmatic puzzle of a movie.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Keith Uhlich
No simplistic status parable. It’s more a psychological snapshot of a person forever doomed to remain a voyeur to her own life
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson
Martel's vision is so visually rich and complex it borders on the impressionistic, but The Headless Woman would be nowhere without the precise tour de force performance by Onetto.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
A remarkably nuanced, ever-evolving performance (María Onetto).
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
Guilt and alienation from Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel, so arty, enervated, and allegorical it might have been made by a European in the early sixties.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
As dense and fluid as Martel's movie is, the viewer--like the protagonist--is compelled to live in the moment. And a rich moment it is.
Read Full Review >Variety Leslie Felperin
A simpler and more taut, if slightly less interesting version of the oblique but mesmerizing studies of family life in fetid, hothouse atmospheres the Argentine helmer offered up in "La cienaga" and "The Holy Girl."
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Not the supernatural horror picture its title suggests, but this subtle, elliptical film evokes its own kind of nightmarish situation.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Matthew Sorrento
As promising as the premise sounds, it cannot rise from the mundane.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Andy Klein
The disjointedness of The Headless Woman might be the result of narrative complexity or of directorial ineptitude or (my favorite) of narrative complexity mangled by directorial ineptitude. If the residual fog ever clears, maybe I'll be able to tell you for sure.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Daniel P. gave it a5:
The film have an interesting story but the way that Lucrecia made the movie is a little boring and got short key parts.
