{"id":507,"date":"2010-01-22T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2010-01-27T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T21:19:12","slug":"seeing-the-headless-woman-at-the-dryden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2010\/01\/22\/seeing-the-headless-woman-at-the-dryden\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Headless Woman at the Dryden"},"content":{"rendered":"

I headed out to the Dryden Theater<\/strong> at George Eastman House<\/a><\/strong> (900 East Ave.<\/a>) to see La mujer sin cabeza<\/a> (The Headless Woman)<\/em><\/strong>. I had carefully read the calendar summary<\/a> and noted some dangerous phrases: \"intriguing and surreal\", \"whose perfect life may be a dream\", \"droll, enigmatic fable about bourgeois discombobulation\". What I mean is that I was braced for an inaccessible art film — one that I'd have to endure … or worse (and under rare circumstances) leave early.<\/p>\n

I talked with Antonella Bonfanti<\/a><\/b> beforehand and was reassured that the movie was interesting. In her introduction to the film, she pointed out that the film requires attention. By creating the scenario of a mystery — wherein the titular woman never knows whether she killed a child in a dramatic accident in her car — I found myself compelled<\/em> to pay attention. I was constantly looking for clues, and in the process, noted the subtleties of the story. The film calls attention to Argentina's growing rift between rich and poor, forming a de facto caste system. It gets a bit blunt with things, as the lower class is frequently paired with the sound of dogs (although I can't recall many images of dogs), but overall it's an excellent movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I headed out to the Dryden Theater at George Eastman House (900 East Ave.) to see La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman). I had carefully read the calendar summary and noted some dangerous phrases: \"intriguing and surreal\", \"whose perfect … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,611,21],"tags":[1362,1364,1365,1363,13,1361,424,1360],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-for-the-parents","category-movies","tag-antonella-bonfanti","tag-argentina","tag-caste-system","tag-dogs","tag-dryden","tag-la-mujer-sin-cabeza","tag-poverty","tag-the-headless-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}