An Evening with Lucrecia Martel: The Headless Woman
- Wed, Apr 22
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Director: Lucrecia Martel Run Time: 87 min. Format: 4K Digital Release Year: 2008 Language: Spanish with English subtitles
Starring: César Bordón, Claudia Cantero, Guillermo Arengo, Inés Efrón, María Onetto
Screenwriter: Lucrecia Martel
Producers: Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar, Tilde Corsi, Verónica Cura
Vidiots is thrilled to welcome the legendary and luminous filmmaker Lucrecia Martel for a very special evening featuring the new 4K Restoration of her mesmerizing mystery The Headless Woman.
A bourgeois middle-aged dentist named Veronica (MARIA ONETTO) drives alone on a dirt road, becomes distracted, and runs over something. Immediately she becomes disoriented, unmoored from her identity and reality, like a sleepwalker who’s actually awake. As the week go on, she becomes obsessed with the possibility that she may have killed someone: a young boy whose body is found in a roadside canal. Veronica tries to piece together what happened while her husband systematically erases her tracks. A chilling parable about a woman in shock, Lucrecia Martel’s third feature explores the intricacies of class and the role of women in a male-dominated society.
This screening will be preceded by an introduction by Lucrecia Martel. Join us at 6:30pm for a screening of her newest film Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) which will be followed by a conversation with Martel.
About the Restoration:
Restoration carried out from the 4K scan of the original 35 mm camera negative, a first-generation internegative, and the original digital sound mix. Reference elements included a duplicate negative and a vintage 35 mm release print. The process included digital cleaning to remove the imperfections of time and color correction to restore the original brightness, contrast, and chromatic values. Effects created in the digital intermediate were preserved.
Restoration produced by Rei Pictures, with the support of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Additional support and organization by Strand Releasing USA. Carried out at Cubic Restoration in Buenos Aires. Color grading was led by Gustavo Biazzi, under the consultation of cinematographer Bárbara Álvarez; digital image restoration by Margarita Moscoso; sound work by Federico Esquerro; and mastering by Julián Giulianelli. The project was coordinated by Fernando Madedo, and the entire process was supervised by director Lucrecia Martel.
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