Fragments of Lucrecia Martel’s ‘The Headless Woman’ (‘La mujer sin cabeza’, 2008)
1. In Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza, 2008), the protagonist bears her guilt so singularly you…
Notes on Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’
The first plane in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma sails across a snatch of sky mirrored in soapy water; the next, in…
The Act of Taking: Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Burning’
If a sign is a premonition, it points to a future; if it’s a clue, a past. But sometimes a…