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The Official Story

The Official Story

1985
Drama
1h 52m
Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife in Buenos Aires, circa 1983, after the fall of the "junta militar" that had taken over the government since 1976. She has a husband, Roberto, who is a succesful lawyer and a five-year-old adopted daughter. (imdb)
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The Official Story

1985
Drama
1h 52m
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Rated 24 Mar 2012
85
81st
A couple of music cues aside, this is very well put together, letting the emotions rise out of the material and the very powerful performances. It does the little things right, the conversations, the little allusions, and the depiction of internal and social conflicts in a way that highlights issues while placing them in a broader context. The only thing that bothers me is the most fundamental decision, the perspective of guilty privilege that pushes the very real victims to a secondary role .
Rated 26 Nov 2019
65
61st
Bourgeois guilt as a form of political awakening for a mid-age woman who finds her adopted daughter is a missing baby of a missing, actually assassined, couple of leftists. Strong acting does all the stuff here, but Puenzo manages to combine a dramatic family story with the trauma of a nation in their most violent period.
Rated 17 Apr 2016
50
6th
The acting was overdone.
Rated 17 Dec 2021
78
55th
Deliberate and detailed depiction of Aleandro's history teacher gradually realising how little she knows of the reality of her own country's history is a little too bloodless and austere at times, lurching into sudden, violent moments of emotional conflict which feel a little out of place (the denouement is the definition of "that escalated quickly!") Held together by a cast of fine, understated performers with Aleandro superb in the lead - interesting in many ways and likely worth a rewatch.
Rated 15 Jul 2011
70
51st
This heavy-handed drama relies in its superb acting to succeed.
Rated 17 Oct 2013
95
89th
Genial e bonito.
Rated 09 Feb 2010
7
73rd
thought provoking film about the complicity of some in Argentina's recent history.
Rated 11 Feb 2008
48
26th
Not the greatest movie, but I did learn something and it was interesting subject matter.
Rated 11 Jun 2020
63
24th
Arjantin İspanya 18-19-20. yüzyıl tarihini bilmiyorsanız anlamanız çok zor. Ben de bu tarihi öğrenmeye üşendim, belli ki birileri birilerine haksızlık etmiş, darbe yapmış falan filan. Ülkemizdekileri çözdük de Arjantin'i kaldı.
Rated 12 Sep 2021
75
49th
A thoughtful piece of filmmaking that brings the audience of people oblivious to the Argentine military junta into a bracing knowledge of its abuses through the character of Alicia. The subject matter here is important, and her position as history teacher (and memory-maker) creates a productive tension as she learns more about what went on in the previous few years. Once Alicia's direction becomes clear, the film offers a rather unsurprising look at her transformation.

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