Imagining Argentina
2003 · Movie · 107 min · ★ 5.6 · 29% critics
During Argentina’s military dictatorship, a theater director’s life is upended when his journalist wife is seized after criticizing the regime. As disappearances spread across Buenos Aires, he searches for answers while fear, grief, and a strange sense of possibility shape his fight to hold on.
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Details
- Years
- 2003
- Release date
- 2003-09-13
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Critic score
- 29/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.6/10 (53 votes)
About
You may be drawn to this if you want a grim political drama about repression, loss, and resistance with some unusual storytelling choices; Not for you if you dislike disturbing content or a supernatural touch in serious history.
Pros: powerful historical subject; strong emotional weight; raises awareness | Cons: divisive supernatural element; uneven tone; very graphic violence
Themes
- 1970s
- supernatural
- buenos aires, argentina
- disappearance
Cast & crew
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
- AD
Anthony Diaz-Perez
as Policeman 1
Luis Antonio Ramos
as Policeman 2
Directed by Christopher Hampton