Directed by:
Christopher HamptonScreenplay:
Christopher HamptonCinematography:
Guillermo NavarroComposer:
George FentonCast:
Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Leticia Dolera, Luis Antonio Ramos, Rubén Blades, Claire Bloom, Horacio Flash, John Wood, Kuno Becker, Vera Czemerinski (more)Plots(1)
Carlos Rueda is the director of a children's theater in Buenos Aires, a city haunted by the disappearance of thousands who have spoken up against the dictator in power. When his wife, Cecilia, disappears after writing a controversial article, Carlos discovers he has the power to look into the faces of those seeking the missing and see the fate of the people they love. But no matter how desperately he searches for his own wife, he always finds himself one step behind. Pushed to the limits of survival, it's up to Cecilia to find her way to Carlos in a journey filled with danger, horror and suspense. (official distributor synopsis)
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Excellent actors mired in lifeless directing. The best way to remedy this film’s clumsiness would have been to not make it at all. There are plenty of powerful moments and urgency in the theme that the film conveys, but the way these are presented are sleep-inducing and embarrassing. On the one hand, it relies on the dimension of reality and, on the other hand, it undermines that with surrealistic elements, which are nice and poetic, but they throw sand in the narrative gears. And the film’s utter faux pas is that the story of the separated central couple trails off into a distatefully purposeful, propagandistic message as the minutes pass.
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