 | MOVIE #1,291 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 12.22.23 part of the LUCRECIA MARTEL Director Focus The inciting incident is filmed so simply and perfectly: a woman hits something on a remote road and drives off, kids’ handprints from the scene prior visible on the window, and then it starts pouring rain. This sets off the oblique narrative, if you can call it that. It's a difficult film and the slowest burn of Martel’s 2000s debut trio. I loved this trilogy and really appreciated how different they all felt while existing in and playing with similar ideas. I'm honestly at a loss as to how I would even rank them because I think they're all essential viewing and especially work well together as a set. The curious title of the picture is one that is represented visually: heads are often shown from behind or cut off in scenes, or otherwise obscured… |
It feels like this film specifically might be a metaphor for bourgeois guilt? But that feels too generous as the film, deep down, doesn't seem to want to offer them the benefit of the doubt. These sins are too rampant and abstract to warrant forgiveness. So It's more of a portrait of the wealthy's malaise and how they go about life in an oblivious fog. How their mere existence symbolically kills that which is beneath them and with such callous indifference. In this sense, despite the ease of their life, they're rendered vacant and insignificant. The title seems to be directly addressing this mindlessness too, and Martel’s peppering of this idea visually goes a long way in driving the message home.
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The Headless Woman (Spanish: La mujer sin cabeza / La mujer rubia) is a 2008 Argentine psychological thriller art film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel and starring María Onetto. The plot revolves around Vero (short for Verónica) (Onetto), who hits something while driving on a deserted road near Salta. Not being sure if she has hit a person or an animal, she drives off, and becomes increasingly mentally disturbed. It was released on May 21, 2008.
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