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Director: Lucrecia Martel
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From Time Out Film Guide
Driving alone on a country road, Verónica (Onetto) is momentarily distracted and hits something: the rearview mirror reveals a dead dog. Shaken, she goes on, checks herself in for an X-ray at the hospital where her brother works and then continues life with her family and friends, zoning in and out of conversations as if in shock, but otherwise acting (mostly) quite ordinarily… until she tells her husband she may have killed someone. A deft and often witty portrait of psychological and ethical alienation, hinged on a wonderfully astute study in amiable vagueness by Ornetto, the film succeeds not only in evoking the effects of a shock (with sound and image meticulously arranged to take us inside Verónica’s bewildered consciousness), but also in suggesting the moral concerns of a petite bourgeoisie quietly devoted to self-preservation. Demanding but rewarding fare.Author: Geoff Andrew
Cast & crew
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Producer: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: María Onetto, Inés Efron, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Daniel Genoud full cast
Duration: 87 mins
US Release: Aug 21 2009
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