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The Blonds (2004)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:5
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.1/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 7, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: An extremist right-wing Government ran amok in Argentina from 1976-1979, causing the deaths of countless civilians via a brutal kidnapping and execution program which ravaged the country. Two... An extremist right-wing Government ran amok in Argentina from 1976-1979, causing the deaths of countless civilians via a brutal kidnapping and execution program which ravaged the country. Two people who vanished under this regime were the mother and father of filmmaker Albertina Carri. THE BLONDS is Carri's highly personal attempt to trace the history of her deceased parents, and piece together the story of their lives. Being only four years old when the so-called "Dirty War" decimated the country, it proves to be a difficult and arduous task. However, with a single-minded determination and a willing crew at her disposal, Carri sets off across Buenos Aires bringing only a few faded photographs and an actress (Analia Couceyro) who interprets the directors emotions in front of the camera. As she unravels the story of her family, Carri uses her findings to muse on larger concepts of identity and personality. With little concrete evidence of her parents lives, she takes an alternate route to achieving closure by using her meager resources to imagine how their lives may have played out. In doing so she opens up her analogous narrative further, posing fascinating theories on memory, truth, and love. At the heart of the movie is a profound sense of loss and longing on the filmmakers part, largely due to the knowledge that she will never learn the real truth of her family's life prior to that fateful day in the late-1970s. Carri's willingness to lay bare her unfortunate personal circumstances provides the film with its emotional core, adding weight to her theoretical ponderings, and making it an incredibly moving experience. [More]
Starring: Analia Couceyro
Starring: Analia Couceyro
Director: Albertina Carri
Director: Albertina Carri
Producer: Barry Ellsworth
Composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Studio: Women Make Movies
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Reviews for The Blonds
After watching this chilly film, you won't cry for Argentina so much as you'll be scratching your head about it.
Easily the most formally sophisticated feature to have played the D.MAC facility, The Blonds plays head games with the conventions of political memoir.
It's won significant acclaim and recognition in Argentina even though it refuses to offer the comfort and certainty of a conventional documentary -- something that has alienated part of the mainstream press.
Carri's refusal to suffer, to confront her own emptiness, is what finally renders The Blonds jejune, nihilistic and utterly unsatisfying.
The result can be at times too theoretical, too personal and too opaque, but it's a consistently challenging work that's often sharply poignant.
What distinguishes the movie is its inventive, multifaceted way of questioning whether the 'truth' of past events can ever be separated from the memories, longings, and scanty evidence that inextricably surrounds it.
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