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New York Film Fest: Lucrecia Martel

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New York Film Fest: Lucrecia Martel

A Good Head on her Shoulders

Highlights:

Lucrecia Martel’s THE HEADLESS WOMAN is an elliptical psychological drama about guilt, personal responsibility, and self-deception. When affluent Vero hits something in the road—a dog? a person?—she cannot bring herself to look or report the incident. Convinced she has killed a child, Vero quietly loses her sense of self.

We talked to Martel about how her protagonist's journey mirrors the current class struggle in Argentina and how her rigorous formal style helped her dramatize these tensions in the film.

See the rest of our 2008 New York Film Festival Coverage.

Read Mike D'Angelo's review of THE HEADLESS WOMAN by Lucrecia Martel

Transcript:

Born in 1966, Lucrecia Martel studied animation at Avellaneda Experimental (AVEX), attended the National Experimentation Filmmaking School (ENERC) for several years, and studied Communication Science.

She directed a number of short films between 1988 and 1994, including Rey Muerto (Dead King) (1995), which was part of Historias Breves I (Brief Tales I).

In 2001 Martel directed the film La Ciénaga (The Swamp), which won awards in Berlin, Habana, Toulouse and Sundance, among other festivals.

In 2004, Martel wrote and directed La Niña Santa (The Holy Girl), which was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival Palm d´Or that year.

She was a member of the Cannes Film Festival Feature Films Jury in 2006.

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