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Day 7: Live from Cannes: Guilt Complexion seen in ‘The Headless Woman’

Published on May 21, 2008

While Lucrecia Martel’s The Holy Girl/La
Niña Santa offered a narrative that continually shifted and gave us a perplexing study of the laws of attraction, her latest feature, and what I dubbed as a pre-festival “must see” is perhaps too monotone and perhaps not distracting enough when zeroing in on the plight of the lead character – who suffers from more than bruised forehead and damaged front end of a car. La Mujer sin
cabeza (The Headless Woman) runs with one flat note throughout – and being shell-shocked is transmitted without the required oomph. [Note: Full review coming soon].

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).