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The Headless Woman

2008 · 1h 27m · Unrated Drama, Mystery
Directed by Lucrecia Martel

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Overview

After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.

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All reviews
77%
Tomatometer
Fresh

If Hitchcock and Antonioni ever had an interest in class guilt, you'd have Martel.

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Fresh

In what could be one of the greatest films ever made about the emotional realities of a damaged mind, this giddily disorientating latest from Lucrecia Martel is a work of frenzied genius.

David Jenkins, Time Out
Fresh

One of the film's great strengths is Martel's compressed visual power. Her ability to capture the disorientation of seeing the world from the seclusion of a car's interior is strangely compelling...

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Fresh

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.

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

A full appreciation of Lucrecia Martel's elegant, rain-soaked film, The Headless Woman, requires the concentration and eye for detail of a forensic detective.

Stephen Holden, New York Times

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