THE HEADLESS WOMAN (12A)

DIRECTED BY: Lucrecia Martel
CAST: María Onetto, César Bordón
COUNTRY: Argentina
YEAR: 2008
DURATION: 86min
CERTIFICATE: 12A

Veronica is driving on the highway when she’s distracted by her phone ringing; she runs something over, but keeps driving. The police confirm that there were no accident reports but Veronica has doubts about what she actually hit.

“[Lucrecia Martel] is such a remarkable filmmaker,” Ari Aster told Criterion Collection, “I love all of her films, but this is the one I love the most … She takes these quotidian details and makes them menacing. She makes everything menacing.”

Screening as part of our Ari Aster season, to celebrate the release of the director’s latest film Beau is Afraid.