Sundance Kabuki Cinema
1881 Post St
415.346.3243
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Still from The Headless Woman, Courtesy Strand Releasing
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Sep 18, 2009 – Sep 24, 2009
Daily
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- Price
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$11
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Lucricia Martel's films pulse with ideas and nuance underneath their surface of foregrounded sound design and rich colors. In the Argentinean auteur's latest film the titular character's tidy middle-class existence starts to unravel when she accidentally hits a stray dog while driving. Or perhaps it was a local boy. Choosing to leave the scene before she finds out, the woman remains haunted by doubt, which soon becomes all-consuming. At once a damning commentary on Argentina's suppression of its own political traumas and a sly homage to cinema's many women on the edge, The Headless Woman is that rare film in which every frame is necessary viewing.
