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Strand Helps ‘Headless Woman’

I found Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman hard to latch on to, tedious and never cared about the protagonist’s plight which is the opposite about how I felt about Martel’s The Holy Girl (La Niña Santa). Strand Releasing have picked up the difficult The Headless Woman and if they are smart, they’ll pounce on Spanish-speaking crowds as well as, the regular art-house patrons.

Eric Lavallée

Published on March 8, 2009

Though I admired the curiously thought-out premise and unique reflection on how memory serves us both right and wrong, I found Lucrecia Martel‘s The Headless Woman hard to latch on to, tedious and never cared about the protagonist’s plight which is the opposite about how I felt about Martel’s The Holy Girl (La Niña Santa). Strand Releasing have picked up the difficult The Headless Woman and if they are smart, they’ll pounce on Spanish-speaking crowds as well as, the regular art-house patrons.

Variety reports that the pic will start a small theatrical run on Aug. 19 at Film Forum.

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Eric Lavallée

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).