Imagining Argentina (2003)

09/13/2003Drama, Romance, Thriller1h 47m
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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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Antonio Banderas

    Carlos Rueda

  2. Cast 1

    Emma Thompson

    Cecilia Rueda

  3. Cast 1

    Leticia Dolera

    Teresa Rueda

  4. Cast 1

    Maria Canals-Barrera

    Esme Palomares

  5. Cast 1

    Rubén Blades

    Silvio Ayala

  6. Cast 1

    Irene Escolar

    Eurydice

  7. Cast 1

    Fernando Tielve

    Orfeo / Enrico

  8. Cast 1

    Héctor Bordoni

    Pedro Augustín

  9. Anthony Diaz-Perez

    Policeman 1

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 instigated) this vile piece of crap. The film takes place in 1977, in an Argentina where everyone speaks English with a wide range of Hispanic and Latin American accents, none of which sound remotely Argentinian. The exception is Emma Thompson, who u...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

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