Imagining Argentina (2003)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Christopher Hampton

Writers:

Lawrence Thornton (novel)
Christopher Hampton (writer)

Release Date:

12 September 2003 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

An extraordinary story of love, compassion and danger.

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Journalist | Psychic | Compassion | Survival | Love

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Irene Escolar	...	Eurydice
Fernando Tielve	...	Orfeo / Enrico
Hector Bordoni	...	Pedro Augustín (as Héctor Bordoni)
Antonio Banderas	...	Carlos Rueda
Emma Thompson	...	Cecilia Rueda
Maria Canals-Barrera	...	Esme Palomares (as Marí'a Canals)
Rubén Blades	...	Silvio Ayala
Leticia Dolera	...	Teresa Rueda
Anthony Diaz-Perez	...	Policeman 1 (as Anthony Díaz Pérez)
Luis Antonio Ramos	...	Policeman 2
Carlos Kaniowsky	...	Rubén Mendoza (as Carlos Kaniowski)
Stella Maris	...	Concepta Madrid
Concha Hidalgo	...	Octavio Marquez's Grandmother
Ana Gracia	...	Hannah Masson
Horacio Obón	...	Victor Madrid

MPAA:

Rated R for violence/torture and brief language.

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

Spain | UK | USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Malaysia:18PL (uncut version) | Malaysia:U (cut version) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Czech Republic:15 | Finland:K-15 | Philippines:R-18 | Singapore:M18 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina

Company:

Multivideo

Trivia:

When it became clear that two additional scenes would help the script, a) the quarrel about whether Cecilia should publish her article and b) the flashback scene why the Cecilia and Carlos got married, there was a little competition going on between 'Christopher Hampton' and 'Emma Thompson', who both wrote their versions of those scenes. Emma Thompson's version of the flashback scene finally was agreed on.

cruel reality

Please excuse my English, now that it is my third language. I was born and raised in Argentina; I currently work in Buenos Aires at a café, until I get my bachelor degree in naval architecture. As crazy as it might sound, my grandfather disappeared in the 1970s, and never came back. Perhaps to you… this was just a movie, you can rate it as you want or give the names you like to. But I found myself dumb founded with this film, I felt the worst anguish while seeing it, and forced myself to keep on watching and to keep on remembering. I can not find words in English nor Spanish to describe how deeply this movie has gotten to me. It's been a long time since it happened, but I see most of this film as my mind portraying old stories that my grandmother used to tell me when I asked about the dad of my dad. A film where reality is described at its best and where a part of me knows that justice in this country is just a word with no meaning, it was before, and it is now. I win nothing by saying this, nor I feel better, I just thought that perhaps I should comment on the impact the movie has had on someone like me, a normal guy who studies and works in country where future has little by little lost its meaning.