La mujer sin cabeza 2008

Critics score:
73 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Stephen Holden, New York Times: 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. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The lead actress, Maria Onetto, holds you through the longueurs. Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: 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... Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: If Hitchcock and Antonioni ever had an interest in class guilt, you'd have Martel. Read more

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: 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. Read more

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David Jenkins, Time Out: 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. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: 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. Read more