The Headless Woman
Strand Releasing | Release Date: August 19, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 12 Critics
Positive:
10
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Brilliant, maddeningly enigmatic puzzle of a movie. Read full review
100
Time OutKeith 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
100
San Francisco ChronicleG. 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
91
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
A remarkably nuanced, ever-evolving performance (María Onetto). Read full review
88
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
This is also the first of Martel’s films to build in a direction other than up. The film’s lateral movement continues a kind of class commentary. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)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
80
Village VoiceJ. 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
80
EmpirePatrick Peters
Slow-paced and self-indulgent in places but a bravely intense use of camera work to explore the internal psychology of the characters. Read full review
70
VarietyLeslie 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
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Not the supernatural horror picture its title suggests, but this subtle, elliptical film evokes its own kind of nightmarish situation. Read full review
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