CINEMATIC POLYPHONY IN LUCRECIA MARTEL’S CINEMA

THE MUSICALITY OF NARRATIVE FILM IN ‘THE HEADLESS WOMAN’

Abstract

This paper provides an overview on the concept of musicality in fiction cinema language, under- standing the comparative analysis of both art forms and considering cinema as a potentially musical construction. Furthermore, the exam- ination of polyphonic musical textures and its methodical application in the formal analysis of Lucrecia Martel’s cinema (namely in her 2007 film The Headless Woman) provides a new per- spective on the aesthetical values of the Argen- tinean filmmaker’s work with sound and image, which unveils other forms of assuming fiction film narration.