"The Headless Woman" is a mesmerizing slow burn of a movie that takes the unreliable narrator concept to a whole new level.
A woman may or may not have hit and killed a boy with her car. Instead of facing the situation head on, she keeps the secret to herself, and then we watch her slowly disassociate from the world around her as she lives with the guilt.
This movie is the definition of ambiguous, which will likely infuriate some viewers. We don't ever know for sure whether she killed a child or not, and we never know whether she knows for sure either. What we do know is that if she did, she's cushioned by a world of privilege and surrounded by people who will enable her to get away with it sans consequences, with all the nonchalance someone would use to throw an area rug over a stubborn floor stain. After all, what's one poor kid more or less?
Maria Onetto gives a sensational performance in the title role. And I couldn't decide whether or not she reminded me more of Marion Cotillard or a mom I know from my boys' school.
This one got under my skin and stayed there.
Grade: A.
A woman may or may not have hit and killed a boy with her car. Instead of facing the situation head on, she keeps the secret to herself, and then we watch her slowly disassociate from the world around her as she lives with the guilt.
This movie is the definition of ambiguous, which will likely infuriate some viewers. We don't ever know for sure whether she killed a child or not, and we never know whether she knows for sure either. What we do know is that if she did, she's cushioned by a world of privilege and surrounded by people who will enable her to get away with it sans consequences, with all the nonchalance someone would use to throw an area rug over a stubborn floor stain. After all, what's one poor kid more or less?
Maria Onetto gives a sensational performance in the title role. And I couldn't decide whether or not she reminded me more of Marion Cotillard or a mom I know from my boys' school.
This one got under my skin and stayed there.
Grade: A.