Spring 2026 Screenings Harpur Cinema: Harpur Cinema Presents: The Headless Woman

Spring 2026 Screenings Harpur Cinema:
Harpur Cinema Presents: The Headless Woman
Lucrecia Martel, Argentina, 2008, 87 min.
Friday, March 13, 2026, and Sunday, March 15, 2026: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $4 Single Admission. Students with ID are FREE.

From the director of La Ciénaga, comes this oblique, compelling tale of a poster child for the South American haute bourgeoisie: blonde and bland, perfectly coiffed and made-up, usually sitting behind the wheel of a Mercedes. María Onetto plays a woman whose perfect life may be a dream or whose nightmare accident (was that a child her car hit? a dog? or nothing?) may indicate that her entire existence lacks reality. Critics have referenced David Lynch and Luis Buñuel as forerunners for the kind of hyper-reality the film exudes. When the film played at the 2008 New York Film Festival, the Village Voice’s J. Hoberman wrote: “The third feature by Lucrecia Martel, leading director of the Argentine renaissance, is her strongest to date — at the very least, this brilliantly edited, purposefully disorienting comedy about a middle-aged woman’s post-car-accident confusion is the movie I’m most looking forward to revisiting.”

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