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Despite its flaws, the film does the job in helping us imagine what that must be like for relatives and friends left behind.
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Imagining Argentina
2003 · 1h 47m · R
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Christopher Hampton
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Imagining Argentina
Overview
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
Director and cast
- Christopher Hampton Director
- Antonio Banderas as Carlos Rueda
- Emma Thompson as Cecilia Rueda
- Leticia Dolera as Teresa Rueda
- Maria Canals-Barrera as Esme Palomares
- Rubén Blades as Silvio Ayala
- Irene Escolar as Eurydice
- Fernando Tielve as Orfeo / Enrico
- Héctor Bordoni as Pedro Augustín
- Anthony Diaz-Perez as Policeman 1
- Luis Antonio Ramos as Policeman 2
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
33%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's sad to see a film which, despite fine work in the various craft departments, fails to succeed on the most basic level.
David Stratton, Variety
Rotten
The concept takes magical realism to a reductive, overtly literal level, trivializing the subject and the people the film tries so hard to memorialize.
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Like Life Is Beautiful before it, Imagining Argentina juxtaposes horrific images of torture and humiliation against gooey optimism and thinks it's saying something profound about human resilience in the process.
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
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