The Headless Woman (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #33 extract: The Headless Woman (2008)

The Headless Woman is a difficult and very opaque film that is, in a way, a psychological thriller, but, due to its structuring and direction, there is no sense of genre or plot in this film. The absence of narrative, resolution and character makes this a confusing experience, one that defies articulation. 

Whilst I have to say that I didn't enjoy this--even as an art film--at all, it pulled me in at points and provides a lot of material to ponder upon. In essence, this seems to be an allegory about times of dictatorship in Argentina and the 10s of thousands of people that would be 'disappeared' by the state. In loosely alluding to this history, The Headless Woman is an inaccessible film about truth, deception, guilt, denial and the dizzying trauma of witnessing - or at least believing you witness - tragedy.