Imagining Argentina

5.720031h 47mReleased

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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.

StatusReleased

Release Date2003-09-13

Runtime1h 47m

LanguagesEnglishEspañol

CountriesSpainUnited KingdomUnited States of America

Keywords

1970s

supernatural

buenos aires, argentina

disappearance

argentina

argentinian dictatorship

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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

Anthony Diaz-Perez

as Policeman 1

Luis Antonio Ramos

as Policeman 2

Reviews

tmdb28039023

Sep 13, 2022

1/10

Imagining Argentina could only be imagined by a perversely ignorant mind. Since its director/screenwriter is Christopher Hampton, who before and after has adapted the screenplays of Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly, The Quiet American, and The Father, I can only blame Lawrence Thornton, whose novel inspired (though perhaps a better word would be ins…

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