My review won't be in Spanish. One of the most famous lies people say here in Brazil is that Spanish can be easier to learn than English, as Portuguese and Spanish have the same mother language, Latin. If you want to learn a foreign language, you need to study, the last time I studied Spanish was in my 8th grade, eight years ago.
Okay, about the film now. "Argentina, 1985" is the best court drama I've ever watched. I didn't watch too much, it's true, but it doesn't nullify the quality of this production. It's an Argentinian film made for Argentinians, but it can talk a lot not only with Brazil, but also with almost the entire South America. Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay were also under military dictatorships between the 1960s and 1980s. Here the focus is the Trial of the Juntas, after the "second Argentinian dictatorship", called by its rulers as "National Reorganization Process" (1976-1983).
Two court film I watched recently were "Philadelphia" and "Where the Crawdads Sing", and in the first one, I liked the arc outside the court but the judgement itself was boring, while in the second, I felt the exact opposite. In "Argentina, 1985" I experienced the best of these two productions, and two names are responsible: Santiago Mitre and Ricardo Darín.
Mitre's direction is extraordinary, it's never manipulative, the entire atmosphere of the movie is brilliantly constructed, and he extracts the best of the most important actor in Argentina. Darín is superb, the audience can feel that he's carrying possibly the heaviest burden in Argentina's history. He's doing an honest job and his dynamic with Peter Lanzani is marvelous. Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo are not only promoters, the film explores them as humans, and the supporting cast is perfect at this function. There are no archetypes here, all characters are humans.
Another thing that surprised me is the film's pace and tone. Sometimes funny, mostly tense and integrally immersive, it's fast when it needs and slow when it needs. I always used to be bored watching scenes in a courtroom.
Una producción extraordinaria y yo creo que "nunca más" volvamos a tener otra película con ese nível de valor. Muchas veces los nombres de las personas envolvidas son cambiados para evitar acciones judiciales, pero el coraje del equipo y el tono adoptado por Mitre hacen que esta historia sea acessible al público en general y permiten contarla en un film que no es un documental, algo que difícilmente ocurriería en Estados Unidos.
This last paragraph needed to be in Spanish, I needed to make reference to the words most spoken by the Argentine people in that time. Amazon, please, make campaign for this film. It's powerful, it's strong, it's necessary. Brazil and Argentina are rivals only in football, I'm rooting for South America to have an Oscar again!
Okay, about the film now. "Argentina, 1985" is the best court drama I've ever watched. I didn't watch too much, it's true, but it doesn't nullify the quality of this production. It's an Argentinian film made for Argentinians, but it can talk a lot not only with Brazil, but also with almost the entire South America. Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay were also under military dictatorships between the 1960s and 1980s. Here the focus is the Trial of the Juntas, after the "second Argentinian dictatorship", called by its rulers as "National Reorganization Process" (1976-1983).
Two court film I watched recently were "Philadelphia" and "Where the Crawdads Sing", and in the first one, I liked the arc outside the court but the judgement itself was boring, while in the second, I felt the exact opposite. In "Argentina, 1985" I experienced the best of these two productions, and two names are responsible: Santiago Mitre and Ricardo Darín.
Mitre's direction is extraordinary, it's never manipulative, the entire atmosphere of the movie is brilliantly constructed, and he extracts the best of the most important actor in Argentina. Darín is superb, the audience can feel that he's carrying possibly the heaviest burden in Argentina's history. He's doing an honest job and his dynamic with Peter Lanzani is marvelous. Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo are not only promoters, the film explores them as humans, and the supporting cast is perfect at this function. There are no archetypes here, all characters are humans.
Another thing that surprised me is the film's pace and tone. Sometimes funny, mostly tense and integrally immersive, it's fast when it needs and slow when it needs. I always used to be bored watching scenes in a courtroom.
Una producción extraordinaria y yo creo que "nunca más" volvamos a tener otra película con ese nível de valor. Muchas veces los nombres de las personas envolvidas son cambiados para evitar acciones judiciales, pero el coraje del equipo y el tono adoptado por Mitre hacen que esta historia sea acessible al público en general y permiten contarla en un film que no es un documental, algo que difícilmente ocurriería en Estados Unidos.
This last paragraph needed to be in Spanish, I needed to make reference to the words most spoken by the Argentine people in that time. Amazon, please, make campaign for this film. It's powerful, it's strong, it's necessary. Brazil and Argentina are rivals only in football, I'm rooting for South America to have an Oscar again!