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Only one thing happens in this film, five minutes in, but we don't see it. The
rest is a blur: a road by a canal in Argentina, a rainstorm, a senile aunt, a
nightly car ride, a heroine who keeps drifting into and out of conversations,
always surrounded by servants, gradually disappearing in a haze that is not
just a personal condition, amnesia, but quite obviously the constitution of an
entire society. Political cinema in Latin America (and elsewhere) has always
been focused on the poor, who are the most obvious subjects, and also the most
readily available, but it has yet to show us how miserable life is for those
who are not poor, how precarious day-to-day existence has become for a class
that has deprived itself of the most basic forms of access to reality. Lucrecia
Martel's film does precisely that, and it's a good start: a soft-focus prison,
a haunted house, a series of superimpositions of fragmented geographies and
discontinuous mental states, and even though the ghosts of the poor (or the
memories of military dictatorship) are barely present, it's still a horror film.
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pirate cinema berlin
u kottbusser tor
sunday june 5, 8:30 pm
the headless woman
lucrecia martel, 2008, 89 min, english subs
https://0xdb.org/1221141
12 seats, rsvp
first come first serve
location in separate mail
trailers:
https://piratecinema.org/trailers/#20160605-01
https://piratecinema.org/trailers/#20160605-02
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