Perhaps the most well-recognized female director in Argentina, Lucrecia Martel (The Swamp, The Holy Girl) tells of a middle-class woman who may - or may not - have struck a human while driving home one night...

"A full appreciation of Lucrecia Martel's elegant, rain-soaked film... requires the concentration and eye for detail of a forensic detective. Every frame of this brilliant, maddeningly enigmatic puzzle of a movie contains crucial information, much of it glimpsed on the periphery and sometimes passing so quickly you barely have time to blink... The story revolves around Verónica's brief meltdown after her involvement in a possible hit-and-run accident.

You could say The Headless Woman is a meditation on Argentina's historical memory. It subtly compares Verónica's silent disavowal of responsibility for any crime she might have committed with that country's silence during its dictatorship, when suspected dissidents disappeared. In interviews Ms. Martel has suggested that The Headless Woman is about Argentina's refusal to acknowledge a widening economic disparity between the middle and lower class. And the scenes of light-skinned Argentine bourgeoisie interacting with darker-skinned workers suggest that the two classes are mostly invisible to each other." - Stephen Holden, The New York Times