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.
The Headless Woman(La mujer sin cabeza)
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Argentina, France, Italy · 2008
1h 27m
Director Lucrecia Martel
Starring María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Guillermo Arengo
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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A bourgeois woman named Vero hits something with her car in the dead of night and drives away. Originally indifferent to the situation, she grows increasingly paranoid resulting from her inability to know what she hit exactly, whether it was a person, an animal, or something else.
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What are critics saying?
New York Magazine (Vulture) by 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.
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.
No simplistic status parable. It’s more a psychological snapshot of a person forever doomed to remain a voyeur to her own life
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Not the supernatural horror picture its title suggests, but this subtle, elliptical film evokes its own kind of nightmarish situation.
A remarkably nuanced, ever-evolving performance (María Onetto).
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Brilliant, maddeningly enigmatic puzzle of a movie.
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