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Name: Imagining Argentina
Released: 2004-6-11
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Ruben Blades

Imagining Argentina

R
1h 47m
2004

31%

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Antonio Banderas and Academy Award® winner Emma Thompson star in this gripping political thriller from Academy Award®-winning director Christopher Hampton. Carlos Rueda (Banderas) is the director of a children's theater in Buenos Aires, a city haunted by the disappearance of thousands who have spoken up against the dictator in power. When his wife, Cecilia (Thompson), disappears after writing a controversial article, Carlos discovers he has the power to look into the faces of those seeking the missing and see the fate of the people they love. But no matter how desperately he searches for his own wife, he always finds himself one step behind.

Director:

Christopher Hampton

Producer:

Geoffrey C. Lands, Diane Sillan Isaacs, Santiago Pozo

Writer:

Christopher Hampton

Cast:

Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Ruben Blades

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

31%

Reviews

London Evening Standard

Antonia Quirke

It is not a good film; it is, moreover, a very earnest one, and our popular culture despises earnestness above almost anything else.

Gimmicky, pat, and just a tad too brutal at times, Imagining Argentina is a powerful statement rendered oddly ineffectual by a consistent desire to avoid controversy.

June 21, 2017

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San Francisco Chronicle

Ruthe Stein

Despite its flaws, the film does the job in helping us imagine what that must be like for relatives and friends left behind.

Hampton's mixing of thriller and love story, cinematic coincidence and historical fact makes this film flawed but fascinating.

June 20, 2017

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