ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few minutes into The Headless Woman, Veronica (Maria Onetto)—the titular headless woman—hits something with her car as she searches for her ringing cell phone. From a rear view, we see, in a briefly held long shot, what appears...
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Filmmaker John Magary has been writing over at the newly reinvigorated The Reeler, and he has a great interview up with director Lucrecia Martel, whose The Headless Woman is playing at the New York Film Festival. The interview comes with the drawing reprinted here, which Martel explains: Undoubtedly, all of my films are organized in layers. For example, if I had to draw it, it wouldn’t be a
Reverse Shot - (Free subscription) | yesterday
"There is a beautiful and at the same time horrifying mechanism in society: if you want to protect someone, you can disown his or her responsibility across his or her class. This sounds really beautiful, but it only works for some layers of society. The film reveals a blurred moment of a woman’s life, and shows how things become more secure by making certain things disappear. Like my other films,...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Having dismissed one New York Film Festival selection about an Argentinian yesterday , I'm pleased today to promote another. If Steven Soderbergh's Che wasn't worth your time, director Lucrecia Martel's A Headless Woman most certainly is (it plays this evening at the Ziegfeld Theater; amazingly it isn't yet sold out ). Martel's previous feature, Holy Girl , the story of a teenage girl who tries to...
Tativille (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman ( La Mujer sin cabeza ), from an original screenplay by the director, marks 2008's first piece of unequivocally great filmmaking. Contrary to critical intimations of The Headless Woman's narrative opacity, Martel builds her picture entirely around female lead Veró's (María Onetto) distressed psychology following an automobile accident of her own distracted making....
Reverse Shot - (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
That Kurosawa masks his social critique in ghostly, vague affectation often gives him the tag of Abstract Auteur, though compared with willfully obscure directors like Lucrecia Martel and Claire Denis, he’s far more digestible. His latest film, Tokyo Sonata , moves away from his recent forays into toying with horror and sci-fi conventions, but it’s no less generic. read more
The Reeler (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Reeler Interview: Lucrecia Martel sketches her way back through the cryptic, classic NYFF selection The Headless Woman
Lessons of Darkness (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
The Headless Woman is a scrupulously crafted, thematically sound social critique masquerading as a character study that, to put it bluntly, is so affected and emotionally inaccessible as to be borderline intolerable. Argentinean director Lucrecia Martel’s (The Holy Girl) film...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
Argentine director Lucrecia Martel talks about her intriguing class-war drama "The Headless Woman" and its hostile reception at Cannes.
io9 (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
Argentina's most famous alien-fighting superhero is set to star in his own movie, directed by Lucrecia Martel (whose The Woman Without A Head is appearing at Cannes right now). In El Eternauta, an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
Film Reviews: Lucrecia Martel's latest is a simpler and more taut, if slightly less interesting version of the oblique but mesmerizing studies of family life in the director's previous films.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
"Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel is nothing if not subtle," writes Peter Brunette in the Hollywood Reporter. "She is also a master of visual and aural technique, which is on full and splendid display in La Mujer Sin Cabeza (The Headless...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Filed under: Action , Foreign Language , Sci-Fi & Fantasy , Deals If you were looking to hire a screenwriter and a director for a big-budget alien invasion action film, whom would you pick? Five gets you ten you didn't answer " Lucrecia Martel ." Martel is an Argentinian director of tiny, acclaimed independent films like La Ciénaga and The Holy Girl . She is a Pedro Almodóvar protegé who served on...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
Film News: K&S to produce 'El eternauta' -- In a career departure, Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel, whose “The Woman Without a Head” plays in Cannes Competition Wednesday, will direct alien-invader action pic “El eternauta.”
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Buenos Aires - The upcoming Cannes Film Festival will feature an important Latin American presence, with works by veteran directors Lucrecia Martel and Pablo Trapero, of Argentina, and Walter Salles and Fernando Meirelles, of Brazil, in the official ...
