The Headless Woman: with LUCRECIA MARTEL

Times

Fri Jul 17 at 7:30 PM

Cost

General $9; Student/Senior/Cineclub/UCLA Alum Assoc $8; Student & Senior Cineclub $7

Venue

The Billy Wilder Theater (10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards) Los Angeles, CA 90024 310.206.8013 )

Friday July 17 2009, 7:30PM

The Archive and UCLA’s Latin American Institute and Department of Spanish & Portuguese present
THE HEADLESS WOMAN
(La mujer sin cabeza)
(2008, Argentina/Spain/France/Italy) Directed by Lucrecia Martel
The well-ordered, affluent life of Verónica, a dentist in rural Argentina, begins to unravel after she has a mysterious car accident on a remote road at night. Unable to identify what she hit but imagining the worst, Verónica suffers a breakdown that finds her drifting mutely along the streets of her hometown in an almost hallucinatory daze. Through Verónica’s wanderings, director Lucrecia Martel constructs a spellbinding study of doubt and guilt within a damning parable about social class in contemporary Argentina.

Producer: Pedro Almodóvar, Augustin Almodóvar, Esther Garcia, Verónica Cura, Enrique Piñeyro, Lucrecia Martel, Marianne Slot, Vieri Razzini, Cesare Petrillo, Tilde Corsi. Screenwriter: Lucrecia Martel. Cinematographer: Barbara Alvarez. Editor: Miguel Schverdfinger. Cast: Maria Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Inés Efron, Daniel Genoud, César Bordón. Presented in Spanish dialogue with English subtitles. 35mm, 87 min.

Feature preceded by:
REY MUERTO
(1995, Argentina) Directed by Lucrecia Martel
Poverty, domestic violence and vengeance seethe in the crumbling homes and dusty streets of a northern Argentine town in this striking short with style to burn.

Producer: Alejandro Arroz. Screenwriter: Lucrecia Martel. Cinematographer: Esteban Sapir. Editor: Fernanda Rossi. Cast: Rolly Serrano, Sendra Ceballos, Carlos Aldana, Marcelo Machuca. Presented in Spanish dialogue with English subtitles. DVD, 12 min.

IN PERSON: Lucrecia Martel

Published

Wed Jun 24, 2009 in Screening

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