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Lucrecia Martel’s Immersive Cinema

I didn’t notice a single deep-focus shot in the entire eighty-seven minutes of Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman (La mujer sin cabeza), which recently screened with Martel in attendance at the Billy Wilder Theater in Los Angeles. Virtually every frame, like the one above, contains a shallow depth-of-field, with the point of focus preserved almost exclusively for Veronica (Maria Onetta), an Argentinean woman who thinks she might have accidentally killed a boy while... Read More