Argentina, 1985

2022 [SPANISH]

Action / Biography / Crime / Drama / History

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 96% · 72 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 91% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 30773 30.8K

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Plot summary

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.


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Ricardo Darín as Julio César Strassera
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by PedroPires90 8 / 10

Nunca más!

It's not easy to talk about one of the darkest periods in Argentina's history - including torture, rapes and deaths - and to do it in an appealing way that doesn't become too heavy or exploit the victims' suffering in an abusive way. It's not easy, but they did it.

The script by Llinás and Miter is quite refined, careful and intelligent in the way it addresses all the atrocities of the regime, always saying what it has to say, but it is also intelligent in the way it incorporates moments of humour, a personal and familiar dimension that helps us to identify with the characters, being able to transform everything that happened in one of the most important judgments in history into hope and a turning point. I'm not Argentine. I'm not an easy tear person. However, it is difficult to contain emotions in certain depositions or when in his closing arguments, prosecutor Straessera says "Nunca más" (Never Again). People who have lived under dictatorial regimes or who have heard the stories told by their parents or grandparents cannot remain indifferent to such a moment.

Santiago Miter's direction is super smart too. It's filmed soberly when necessary. It's filmed using movement and different techniques when the action requires it, such as in moments of greater tension, such as during a harrowing dinner with the Assistant Attorney, Luis Moreno Ocampo. The editing is also very efficient, helping a 140-minute film on such a heavy topic - and with much of its time spent in an investigation or in court - pass quickly, using several scenes on the screen at the same time, resorting to overlapping voices and testimonies, resorting to music whenever the film has something to extract from it, not seeming to do anything by chance.

Finally, it is impossible not to mention the excellent actors who make this film. All the supporting actors are at a good level, but the dynamic between Ricardo Darin (as the Attorney General) and Peter Lanzani (as the Assistant Attorney) is one of the highlights, always seeming true and honest, being easy to sympathize and cheer for those characters. Darin could very well have taken a more showy approach, but it is his sobriety and distinct personality that are his greatest strengths.

A must-see film for anyone who cares about the human condition and dignity. A film that recalls that certain pages of history must never be lived again. Nunca más!

Reviewed by Xstal 8 / 10

The Butchers of Buenos Aires...

You've been tasked to prosecute the fascist junta, they've been pulled into the court from their safe bunker, air force, navy and army, assortments of corrupt parties, but you'll feel like you're the hunted, not the hunter.

You'd be forgiven for thinking Ricardo Darin appears in most of the films of Argentine cinema if you only come across the features that receive international acclaim, but there's a good reason for that, and once again he delivers an impressive performance as the state prosecutor building a team and a case against those that destroyed thousands of lives during their vicious and brutal reign.

Coming in well over two hours, I wouldn't let that put you off as the tension builds and insurmountable barriers are removed, the time flies by. A fine piece of factual story telling that leaves more than a sense of satisfaction at the end.

Reviewed by rafaelcr44 10 / 10

Sin palabras, hermanos! Sin palabras!

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!

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