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21 August 2008 (Argentina) morePlot:
After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone. | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins & 4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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La Mujer Sin Cabeza is Brilliant more (6 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| María Onetto | ... | Verónica | |
| Claudia Cantero | ... | Josefina | |
| César Bordón | ... | Marcos | |
| Daniel Genoud | ... | Juan Manuel | |
| Guillermo Arengo | ... | Marcelo | |
| Inés Efron | ... | Candita | |
| Alicia Muxo | |||
| Pía Uribelarrea | |||
| María Vaner | ... | Tía Lala |
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The Headless Woman (International: English title) (USA) (festival title)La donna senza testa (Italy)
La femme sans tête (France)
La mujer rubia (Spain)
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Martel is quickly becoming a master of her own filmic sensibility, which I might call the "art of eavesdropping cinema," and she makes consummate use of something inherent to the medium to take us inside the characters and content of stories that have almost nothing to do with traditional plot points.
As an audience, we are all eavesdroppers (or voyeurs) when we watch a movie. And Martel's sensibility, or way of telling a story, is not only to provide clues to what she is investigating, but to inform us with what she considers important about it. There is a bit of Hitchcock (Rear Window comes to mind), and certainly some of Altman's audio technique around conversation. There is also an exploration of neurosis that one might liken to Almodovar (her producer), yet without the bold, soap operatic farce. And there is also something of Bergman and Antonioni.
La Mujer Sin Cabeza (while not my favorite of her films) is still a sure step forward as a filmmaker. This is not only her most focused film, but it makes use of a more developed cinematic technique than either of her previous two films. Strangely, it has not been received as well. The problem, I believe, has much to due to the predisposition of most film viewers, who not only lack of patience, but the ability to adjust to a film operating in ways they are not accustomed to.
Martel's narratives may seem disjointed at first, as they jump from one scene to another without obvious connection, but they are extremely well thought out. The problem, as I said, has more to do with confounded viewer expectations, and the inability to adapt to a different approach in cinematic narrative, one that is very appropriate to the content of Martel's design. For the uninitiated, her films benefit from a second viewing, if only because what at first seems insignificant or disconnected is actually very important, and provides access to her dry subtle satire.
The power of "Mujer Sin Cabeza," (as with all films) is grounded in our perceptions of the main character's experience (or our experience of her perceptions), which not only infect us with her mental / emotional state, but draw us into the kind of life that she leads, in the balance, providing us a window into modern day Argentina.
Here, we are also made aware of a social system in the midst of decay, being held together by the ever more twisted and frayed threads of a colonial past that seeks preservation, in spite of increasing moral dysfunction, and the inability to take responsibility for anything that interferes with the social system beyond making it disappear...