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...member Frances I. Martel ’09, in an e-mail sent over the Currier House open list, confirmed that she was not part of the decision...
...track the Booker over the last seven years, there has always been an Indian connection - whether it was Yann Martel writing a book based on an Indian story, or Indian authors being shortlisted...
...style. They begin by promising thrills out of classic crime fiction - an immigrant marriage-and-murder plot in The Silence of Lorna, a wife falling for the man who sent her husband to jail in Three Monkeys, a woman who's afraid she ran over someone in Lucrecia Martel's widely praised Argentine film, The Headless Woman - before turning sullenly, claustrophobically inward. For many vaunted directors at Cannes, this was a year of treading water...
...HEADLESS WOMAN. Lucrecia Martel...
...just a dog she hit, but gradually her fear festers into dementia. As with Three Monkeys, the plot of this Argentine non-drama makes it sound more interesting than it is. The film is inert, visually tiring, utterly lacking in suspense; nothing changes except Onetto's hair color. Martel won some international converts for The Holy Girl in 2004, but this time the acolytes are likely to become apostates...