Lucretia Martel's Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza) is one of the best films of the year. It is Martel's third feature and she has developed a remarkably expressive and fluid style, making films that are both precise and ambiguous, rigorous and enigmatic. Anyone interested in discovering new narrative forms in cinema should see her work. I hope to say more about this film and this filmmaker at another time. If you haven't seen the film yet, you have until September 15 to do so. Visit the Film Forum website for more info. The website also includes an excellent interview with Martel where she talks about her experiments with "working in layers". (Note: the frame grab is from a key early scene in the film. It was with this image – the deliberate choice made by the filmmaker for how to frame it, and how long to hold the shot before the cut – that I realized I was watching the work of a real filmmaker: someone working with and through the medium to realize a vision. Someone who knows why they are making a film, and not something else.)
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