SFFS Screen Presents:
The Headless Woman
- When
- Event has passed (Fri Sep 18, 2009 - Thu Sep 24, 2009)
- Cost
- $8 - $14
- Tags
- Movies, Foreign, Film Screenings
Description
The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza, Argentina 2008), a complex and exquisite film reflecting on contemporary class relations by focusing on a bourgeois woman who may have been involved in a hit-and-run accident. Vero, an elegant middle-aged white woman, is returning home along a deserted highway. Taking her eyes off of the dusty road for a moment, a collision brings the car to a violent halt. Shaken, but not seriously injured, she gathers herself before deciding to drive off without investigating what is left behind. She flees, attempting to evade both the authorities and her own guilt by doing her best to ignore, deny and ultimately forget what she has done. But what follows is less a Dostoyevskian meditation on a tortured conscience than an Antonionian study of bourgeois solipsism through the actions of a woman at wit’s end.More Info
- Link
- http://www.sffs.org
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