When one person commits a violent act and everyone knows who they are, prosecution is usually fairly straightforward. When a large number of people commit violent acts and everyone knows who they are, it is anything but. As one torture victim in this film explains, he doesn’t want to take the stand and testify to his experiences because he has to work amongst people who were involved in the violence. Many of them are in influential positions in the new regime.
Argentina’s ruling junta and its National Reorganisation Process officially ended in 1983. The following year, when President Raúl Alfonsín declared that its leaders should face trial in civilian courts for crimes against humanity, moves immediately began to secure an amnesty. This left only a small window in which prosecutions might be brought. Santiago Mitre’s Oscar-nominated film dramatises what followed, combining precise reconstructions based on court records with more imaginative material.
Argentina’s ruling junta and its National Reorganisation Process officially ended in 1983. The following year, when President Raúl Alfonsín declared that its leaders should face trial in civilian courts for crimes against humanity, moves immediately began to secure an amnesty. This left only a small window in which prosecutions might be brought. Santiago Mitre’s Oscar-nominated film dramatises what followed, combining precise reconstructions based on court records with more imaginative material.
- 1/9/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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Argentinian director Santiago Mitre and actor and producer Ricardo Darín recently sat down for a THR Presents conversation, powered by Vision Media, to discuss their film Argentina 1985, the titular country’s submission for the best international feature Oscar.
The Amazon original film revisits the historic 1985 trial of the military junta that ruled the country with an iron grip from 1976 to 1983, ruthlessly quashing dissent and disappearing more than 10,000 people, by some estimates. Darin stars as Julio Strassera, the world-weary chief prosecutor tasked with building a case against the generals after they relinquished power following the election of President Raúl Alfonsín. Reminded of the fragility of the restored democracy by constant death threats against him and his family, Strassera deemed it essential to involve Argentinian youth in the effort to turn the page on the dictatorship and assembled a team of relatively inexperienced but...
Argentinian director Santiago Mitre and actor and producer Ricardo Darín recently sat down for a THR Presents conversation, powered by Vision Media, to discuss their film Argentina 1985, the titular country’s submission for the best international feature Oscar.
The Amazon original film revisits the historic 1985 trial of the military junta that ruled the country with an iron grip from 1976 to 1983, ruthlessly quashing dissent and disappearing more than 10,000 people, by some estimates. Darin stars as Julio Strassera, the world-weary chief prosecutor tasked with building a case against the generals after they relinquished power following the election of President Raúl Alfonsín. Reminded of the fragility of the restored democracy by constant death threats against him and his family, Strassera deemed it essential to involve Argentinian youth in the effort to turn the page on the dictatorship and assembled a team of relatively inexperienced but...
- 12/9/2022
- by Julian Sancton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)
Though All Quiet on the Western Front aims to show the brute ugliness of war, it has the DNA of a Hollywood movie, and as such seeks to also valorize death and tragedy as a spiritual sacrifice. Its most morally dubious but cinematically appreciative quality is that it’s entertaining to watch. Battles orchestrate violence in ways very similar to the famous beach-storming sequence of Saving Private Ryan. Sweeping tracking shots of soldiers stampeding across a vast canvas of dirt and hills look stunning on a huge screen; too bad this is going straight to Netflix. – Soham G. (full review)
Where to Stream: Netflix
Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)
During the early morning of March 24, 1976, a...
All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)
Though All Quiet on the Western Front aims to show the brute ugliness of war, it has the DNA of a Hollywood movie, and as such seeks to also valorize death and tragedy as a spiritual sacrifice. Its most morally dubious but cinematically appreciative quality is that it’s entertaining to watch. Battles orchestrate violence in ways very similar to the famous beach-storming sequence of Saving Private Ryan. Sweeping tracking shots of soldiers stampeding across a vast canvas of dirt and hills look stunning on a huge screen; too bad this is going straight to Netflix. – Soham G. (full review)
Where to Stream: Netflix
Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)
During the early morning of March 24, 1976, a...
- 10/28/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
During the early morning of March 24, 1976, a radio and TV broadcast informed the Argentinian people that their country was now under rule of Joint Chiefs General of the Armed Forces, who had overthrown Isabel Perón’s government. Less than a week later Jorge Rafael Videla named himself president, announcing the beginning of one of the deadliest military dictatorships in history. By the time democracy was restored and elections were held again it was 1983; more than 30,000 people had disappeared.
A return to democracy, however, assumed that the reign of violence and fear Argentineans lived under for almost a decade had been just another government. Normalcy was expected as President Raúl Alfonsín took over. But can a country be healed if justice isn’t served? That depends on your idea of justice—or so is the thesis of Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985, which chronicles events surrounding what became known as the Trial of the Juntas,...
A return to democracy, however, assumed that the reign of violence and fear Argentineans lived under for almost a decade had been just another government. Normalcy was expected as President Raúl Alfonsín took over. But can a country be healed if justice isn’t served? That depends on your idea of justice—or so is the thesis of Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985, which chronicles events surrounding what became known as the Trial of the Juntas,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Jose Solís
- The Film Stage
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