Yet Martel is someone to watch: she has a fantastic eye for detail and mood.
If not for that, it's entirely possible that Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's mystical adventure would have picked everyone's pocket Sunday night.
Martel Webster added 19 for Washington, which has won just 13 games, but has beaten five of the six NBA division leaders.
"The Headless Woman" feels like it started as a noir ... but without warning, Martel drops the camera and everything moves out of focus.
Martel shoots her movie with rapt attention to faces and bodies in the foreground while the life of the hotel spins loosely in the background.
Ang Lee won his second Oscar for directing Life of Pi, the adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
The international art film is a genre with as many conventions as the most commercial products, and the Argentinean writer and director Lucrecia Martel fulfills them with practical craft but little originality.
Each artist read a section of a poem by Man-Booker prize-winning author Yann Martel - emphasising the need for all the world's population to have access to clean water - followed by a musical or artistic performance.
Yet Martel tries to have it both ways, attempting to construct a rich reality by accretion of ordinary and realistic detail, while stacking the narrative deck so rigorously that the characters evaporate into symbols almost upon their appearance.
Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English education at King's College London told the magazine the literary merit of picture books was often underestimated, comparing The Very Hungry Caterpillar favourably with another literary hit, Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
Interesting to note that the movie revises and pretty much demolishes the tiger-taming tips Martel came up with -- worth bearing in mind should you ever find yourself in close proximity to a man-eater for a prolonged period of time.
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