Release Date: Aug. 21
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
Starring: María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Inés Efron, Daniel Genoud
Cinematographer: Bárbara Álvarez
Studio/Run Time: Strand Releasing, 87 mins.
The story of a figuratively, mysteriously decapitated driver
I didn’t realize at first how closely I was supposed to be watching The Headless Woman, the third film by Lucrecia Martel. Boys are playing near a dusty road with their dog; somewhere else, women are chatting after a luncheon and corralling their kids into cars; then one of those women is driving along the largely deserted, rural road seen earlier. She’s alone. She reaches for her cell phone. She runs over something large. After coming to a stop, she stares at the interior of her car as if she’s afraid to consult the rearview mirror, as if she’s trying to swallow an incriminating document. It sticks in the throat. Are...
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Writer: Lucrecia Martel
Starring: María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Inés Efron, Daniel Genoud
Cinematographer: Bárbara Álvarez
Studio/Run Time: Strand Releasing, 87 mins.
The story of a figuratively, mysteriously decapitated driver
I didn’t realize at first how closely I was supposed to be watching The Headless Woman, the third film by Lucrecia Martel. Boys are playing near a dusty road with their dog; somewhere else, women are chatting after a luncheon and corralling their kids into cars; then one of those women is driving along the largely deserted, rural road seen earlier. She’s alone. She reaches for her cell phone. She runs over something large. After coming to a stop, she stares at the interior of her car as if she’s afraid to consult the rearview mirror, as if she’s trying to swallow an incriminating document. It sticks in the throat. Are...
- 9/1/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
Another monster release slate this week finds, amongst other things, interpretations of the Irish troubles, both real and imagined. Also, we meet the real life Mad Men, Qt's Basterds and the godfather of African-American indie film as a bearded ten-year-old boy.
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"Art & Copy"
Filmmaker Doug Pray ("Surfwise") goes inside the advertising industry to uncover the creative minds behind such iconic slogans as "Got Milk?" and "Just Do It," encountering a multitude of contrasting viewpoints, from those who feel they have whored themselves out in the name of commerce to those hopelessly addicted to the rush of satisfying the constantly changing needs of the modern world. Don Draper, eat your heart out.
Opens in New York.
"The Baader Meinhof Complex"
This year's German nominee for the best foreign-language film Oscar, Uli Edel's adaptation of...
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"Art & Copy"
Filmmaker Doug Pray ("Surfwise") goes inside the advertising industry to uncover the creative minds behind such iconic slogans as "Got Milk?" and "Just Do It," encountering a multitude of contrasting viewpoints, from those who feel they have whored themselves out in the name of commerce to those hopelessly addicted to the rush of satisfying the constantly changing needs of the modern world. Don Draper, eat your heart out.
Opens in New York.
"The Baader Meinhof Complex"
This year's German nominee for the best foreign-language film Oscar, Uli Edel's adaptation of...
- 8/17/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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