Word: lucrecia
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...Piano - the only woman to take the top prize in Cannes' 62-year history. Ironically, Campion's 1989 debut, Sweetie, had been unceremoniously heckled at the festival. That said, being booed at Cannes is a rite of passage: last year's festival saw new movies by Charlie Kaufman, Lucrecia Martel and Wim Wenders receiving catcalls. That hasn't stopped both Campion and Lars Von Trier - whose latest work, Antichrist, received the biggest critical drubbing of this year's festival - from entering their latest films for the Palme this year...
...scope and 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...
Unfortunately, the middle-aged connoisseur can't keep other eyes--and hands--off his prized acquisition, second wife Lucrecia. Nor does he necessarily want to, as long as his beautiful and loving mate shares the aphrodisiacal details with...
...only up to a point. The irresistible Lucrecia is sadly ordered out of the house after a dalliance with her husband's 17-year-old son Alfonso, an art student and devilishly knowing seducer. Not for "Fonchito" such cloddish lines as "come up and see my etchings." Instead, he patiently inflames his reluctant step-mother with his enthusiasm for the tragic life and erotic work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele...