Imagining Argentina R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 11, 2005
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Emma Thompson, Antonio Banderas & Rubén Blades | |
Performer: | Maria Canals, Kuno Becker, Leticia Dolera, John Wood, Claire Bloom, Anton Lesser & Luis Antonio Ramos | |
Directed by | Christopher Hampton |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
Hampton makes a moving job of it, with top-notch cinematography and heartfelt performances.
Empire Magazine
Rating: 80/100 --
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.
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DVD Verdict
It is not a good film; it is, moreover, a very earnest one, and our popular culture despises earnestness above almost anything else.
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London Evening Standard
...fidgety and incomplete, as though either poorly conceived or poorly re-edited after the fact.
Los Angeles CityBeat
Like Life Is Beautiful before it, Imagining Argentina juxtaposes horrific images of torture and humiliation against gooey optimism and thinks it's saying something profound about human resilience in the process.
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L.A. Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
Hampton's mixing of thriller and love story, cinematic coincidence and historical fact makes this film flawed but fascinating.
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RTÉ (Ireland)
Rating: 3/4 --
Despite its flaws, the film does the job in helping us imagine what that must be like for relatives and friends left behind.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Product Description:
Set in the magical backdrop of Buenes Aires, Argentina, IMAGINING ARGENTINA features an all-star cast that includes sultry Latin lover Antonio Banderas and esteemed British actress Emma Thompson. Adapted from the acclaimed novel by Lawrence Thornton, the narrative follows theatre director Carlos (Banderas) and his journalist wife Cecilia (Thompson) as they navigate the war-ridden country of the 1970s. When Cecilia is kidnapped by the military junta in power for writing oppositional pieces about their government, Carlos becomes plagued by "visions" of his imprisoned wife and other dissidents who have "disappeared." A daring mixture of luscious magical realism and political commentary, IMAGINING ARGENTINA premiered at the world-renowned Venice Film Festival to great acclaim.
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- UPC: 025192588525
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