March 1, 2008
Strong Recommendation for a depiction of the aftershock of one of the most brutal times in the Americas.
Héctor Alterio,
Norma Aleandro,
Chunchuna Villafañe,
Hugo Arana,
Guillermo Battaglia
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An upper-class Argentinian women begins to suspect that the daughter she and her husband have adopted may be one of the children of purged political foes of the ruling junta.
DVD Release Date: July 5, 2000
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October 12, 2007I watched this a long time ago in Spanish class and had been struggling to remember the title for a while now. After finally reading about it, I had a burst of revelation, and naturally the first thing I did was to come back here and write about it. I am a nerd.
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April 22, 2008I watched this because I just got done reading a book called Imagining Argentina which was about the same conflict this film deals with. I?d been meaning to see this winner of the Best Foreign Film Oscar the year it came out. There isn?t a whole lot to say about it, the settin...( read more)
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January 4, 2010overall good movie but i guess i would like to see a little more education on the conspiracy surround the revolution and especialy the kidnappning of the babies
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August 9, 2009This story, based on real events that took place in Argentina, looks at a married couple torn apart by the campaign of killings and torture that sent thousands of accused political leftists to unmarked graves in the mid 1970s known as the Dirty War.
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May 4, 2009Wonderful lead performance by Norma Aleandro and a compelling if sad story make this worth seeking out.
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March 19, 2009want to see this because it won best foreign-language film at the oscars, at the golden globes, and with the LAFC, and was nominated for best foreign film by NBR
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February 13, 2009More politics and less melodrama would make this one a five stars. Awesome dialogues and performances, but all this stuff about the adopted child is dignous of a soap-opera.
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May 31, 2008Very great movie. I did not like when her husband beats her. She should have killed him for that. Besides that great movie. Lots of reading on this movie for you don't know the language.
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