Anxiety is a hellish machine, an inevitable part of human existence, but more than one knew that Argentina, 1985 couldn’t -did it really deserve it?- win the oscar for best foreign film.
The “dream” of the third will remain for another time. The Oscar for Best International Film went to No news at the front (All quiet on the west front), an ambitious war film, with pleasure to redodirected by the German Edward Berger.
Santiago Mitra, Ricardo Darin e Peter Lanzani, In the name of our deserving local credit, they applauded like good losers and everything suggests that they will return with their heads held high after being useful and committed to the cause of continuing to shed light on a horrible moment in this country.
there is always a why
But he couldn’t win. Not even in the field of subjectivity he deserved it. It was all enthusiasm. He was about typical World Cup inertia.
Three reasons:
The most obvious of all has to do with the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which is still an ongoing plague: Hollywood, megaphone lover of politically correct, could not miss and for that he had a film with a theme close at hand.
Darín insinuated it because of the “handle” that was around it Argentina, 1985, the triumphalist climate has led to a logical “disappointment” with the flavor of defeat. In any case, he acknowledged that the victor, No news at the frontIt was a “fantastic” movie.
the second causeperhaps less predictable, is that the Academy had already awarded this theme with The official story (1985), an Argentine film about dictatorship, the same as Argentina, 1985another film (Argentina) about the dictatorship.
For us, the film has done nothing but reactivate all the debates and questions it has motivated. The official story I’m getting late, nearly 40 years late!, to the central figure of a key man like Julius Caesar Strasserathe prosecutor who tried the leaders of the last military dictatorship for the first time.
The role was beautifully immortalized by Ricardo Darín. The actor knows that thanks to his moving interpretation many people, young and old, will finally know who this man was, to whom, curiously, history had not done justice.
The problem? is that if we take so long to legitimize a man who is likely to be a street or square or plaza in the foreseeable future, it should be clear that, outside the gates, the major accolade would either sound redundant or appear to be “more of the same.”
It’s easier to ask for pears from the elm than niceties in Hollywood.
Accustomed to kicking in the middle of the goal, we imagine the faces of the Oscar boys when, uff, they took another film on the Argentine dictatorship…
And there’s more…
the third reason is that, in this case, he plays against the beloved presence of Ricardo Darín. For the average Argentine -it must be said once and for all- Argentina 1985, the film on the Trial of the Juntas is simply Darín’s last.
Also, from now on, Strassera will have the face of our star actor.
Darín starred in four Academy Award-nominated films: The son of the bride (2001), The secret in their eyes (2009, award winner), wild tales (2014) AND the recent Argentina, 1985.
In other words, the film directed by Santiago Mitra has become the eighth film The Argentine will receive a nomination for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award in Hollywood. Of these eight films, Darín worked on half.
Now let’s try to imagine the notable Hollywood Academy panel thinking aloud, “WTF, again a movie with that kind of clear eyes?!…What’s up?! Don’t they have another actor in Argentina?
Source: Clarin
