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Caché
Why this pick
Like Martel’s film, it turns bourgeois comfort into a quietly suffocating moral crisis, using withheld information, offscreen implications, and an unnervingly controlled visual distance.
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MOVIE2008 1h 27m ARG
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Its polished domestic setting and deliberate unease echo The Headless Woman’s sense that social privilege depends on looking away from violence and exploitation.
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Why this pick
Martel’s earlier film shares the humid, fragmented soundscape and observational tension, watching a wealthy Argentine family drift through denial, decay, and class separation.
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The Piano Teacher
Why this pick
A rigorously controlled psychological drama in which small gestures and social rituals accumulate into discomfort, with the same refusal to offer easy moral reassurance.
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Why this pick
It similarly examines a privileged household through its ingrained class boundaries; its tone is more direct and humane, but its attention to everyday social cruelty is sharply felt.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
This film is centered around Vero, an Argentinean bourgeois woman, and how her life slowly twists out of control after she may or may not have struck and killed a dark-skinned servant's child with her car. As Vero is driving, she is distracted by her cell phone and, as she looks down to answer it, her car hits something. She peers in the rear-view mirror, collects herself, and drives away. We do not see what she has run over; a non-point-of-view shot of Vero driving away from the scene shows there is indeed a body, but it is unclear whether it is an animal or a person.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
María Onetto
Verónica
Claudia Cantero
Josefina
Cesar Bordón
Marcos
Guillermo Arengo
Marcelo
Inés Efron
Candita
María Vaner
Tía Lala