SummaryA 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]
Directed By:Lucrecia Martel
Written By:Lucrecia Martel
The Headless Woman
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
81
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
83% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
8% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
100
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.
100
Brilliant, maddeningly enigmatic puzzle of a movie.
88
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.
80
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.
80
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.
70
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."
25
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.
User score
Generally Favorable
60% Positive
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
30% Mixed
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3 Ratings
10% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Aug 27, 2010
2
0-45 min: What the **** is going on?? ;
45 min: Oh ****! ;
45-55 min: ....... ;
55-58 min: Whoa! ;
58-90 min: ........ ;
Conclusion: The subconscious is a **** Oh, and women **** at driving.
Production Company:
- Aquafilms
- El Deseo
- R&C Produzioni
- Slot Machine
- Teodora Film
Release Date:Aug 19, 2009
Duration:1 h 27 m
Awards
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina
• 3 Wins & 12 Nominations
Indiewire Critics' Poll
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
