Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
415.978.2787
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The Holy Girl, Courtesy of Fine Line Features
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Tuesday July 14, 2009 (7:30pm)
Wednesday July 15, 2009 (7:30pm)
Thursday July 23, 2009 (7:30pm)
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- Price
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$8
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Note:
There will be a post-film discussion with critic B. Ruby Rich after Wednesday's screening.
Lucrecia Martel dabbled in documentaries, shorts, and children's films before ascending to become one of the reigning heavyweights of New Argentine Cinema — not bad for a 43-year-old who proudly claims little formal training. Pulling on the deep reserve of aesthetic styles her previous pursuits provided, the writer/director gravitates toward outwardly simple, small-cast productions that center around decay, the loss of innocence, and doubt. Her much-touted use of surrealistic sound design and camera movement (think Miró, rather than Dali) is fully realized with her latest, The Headless Woman — a psychological thriller that parses memory and paranoia in the wake of an upper-class woman's hit-and-run accident. Martel appears in person for this screening and the Chekhovian La Ciénaga (The Swamp); the retrospective continues with The Holy Girl.
