Imagining Argentina (2003)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 107 minuten
Country:
United States / United Kingdom / Spain
Directed by: Christopher Hampton
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson and Rubén Blades
IMDb score:
6,1 (3.643)
Releasedate: 13 September 2003
Imagining Argentina plot
The film is set in Argentina in the late 1970s, where thousands of people disappeared in cells and torture chambers. When Carlos Ruweda's wife disappears, he discovers a magical gift: in his dreams he has visions about the fate of disappeared people. However, he cannot see what has happened to his own wife, which almost drives him insane.
Actors and actresses
Carlos Rueda
Cecilia Rueda
Teresa Rueda
Esme Palomares
Silvio Ayala
Eurydice
Orfeo / Enrico
Pedro Augustín
Policeman 1
Policeman 2
Reviews & comments
cantforgetyou
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- 1964 messages
- 1693 votes
Bought for one euro at a flea market. Still, the movie was quite interesting. Especially since I had never been so engrossed in the history of Argentina. The 'clairvoyant' in the film is a bit fanta and cringeworthy. But the rest is well acted. Antonio looks good. The beard looked good on him then.
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Robi
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- 2536 messages
- 2530 votes
The film is set in Argentina during the dictatorship. A psychic's wife disappears and he uses his gift to find her. The beginning of the film is still very captivating, but halfway through the film falls a bit. Although the main actor in particular is very well acted. It is also a good film that also makes it clear what happened and how, to this day, there are still attempts to conceal all that and pretend nothing happened. Unfortunately, this happens in more countries. East Germany is also an example of this. Those responsible there have never been convicted. That was a condition for the reunification of Germany. After all, the East Germans were only doing their "work". The Netherlands also once misbehaved in Indonesia. One day the governments will probably apologize to the bereaved. And with that, history is over.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
The film ends with the announcement that during the military dictatorship (1976-1983) about 30,000 men, women and children disappeared without a trace. What precedes that announcement is a banal film that in no way does justice to all those people and their relatives who suffered (and still suffer) so terribly at the hands of Videla and his cronies. It is a film in which torture, rapes and executions alternate with scenes of a third-rate fairground attraction in the form of a psychic who, in his garden, contracts people with their missing loved ones. I resented it immensely. Of the films I have seen about the “dirty war”, this is by far the worst in my opinion. Two ** for the performance of Emma Thompson and Leticia Dolera (as her daughter) and otherwise soon forgotten.
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