The Headless Woman
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings
- Summary: 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)
- Director: Lucrecia Martel
- Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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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.
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80Slow-paced and self-indulgent in places but a bravely intense use of camera work to explore the internal psychology of the characters.
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50As promising as the premise sounds, it cannot rise from the mundane.
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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.
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DanielP.5The film have an interesting story but the way that Lucrecia made the movie is a little boring and got short key parts.
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