With open hands, Ricardo Darín receives praise at the exhibition. AFP photo
After the official screenings at the Venice Film Festival, Argentina, 1985from Santiago Miterwith Ricardo Darin, Pietro Lanzani Y Alessandra Flechnergarnered praise in the international media.
And many speak of Darín as a strong candidate for the Coppa Volpi as best interpreter, the same award that Oscar Martínez won six years ago, for the distinguished citizenco-directed by today’s member of the Jury, our compatriot Mariano Cohn.
Perhaps the criticism that most dazzles the film on the trial of military juntas followed by prosecutors Julio César Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo is the one that publishes Deadline. Stephanie Bunbury speaks of an “exceptional political thriller”, considers Ricardo Darín “one of the best actors in the world”, recalling the scenes of the Judgment, states that “many members of the cast and crew cried during these scenes. So will many of the viewers. “
“What sets this film apart from other political sagas is the skill with which Miter and his co-writer Mariano Llinás have woven the fabric of political struggle with the fabric of human struggle. Its scope is broad, its legal complexities clearly explained, but Darín is Argentina 1985 from scene to scene in what is arguably the best performance of his career to date. She has the ability to go from ironic comedy to dramatic intensity with the flick of a gaucho whip. Like Julio Strassera, he is remarkable ”.
And when he mentions Alejandra Flechner, as Silvia, wife of Strassera, he qualifies her with one word: “Excellent”.
From England
One of the best English film critics, Peter Bradshaw, who for those randomness and for the online ticketing system, has already made us sit in the armchair, wrote in Guardian: “There’s a bit of a Hollywood thrill to this real-life judicial drama, but it’s handled with fantastic style and sincere commitment, and Ricardo Darín delivers a wonderful performance in the lead role: witty, ironic, worried but idealistic. “begins the first paragraph of his critique.
The title – you know that in the coverage of the Festivals is not always the one suggested by the critic – directly says: “Dramatization of the process at the table with a moving show”.
“Miter let the unspoken anger hang in the air: the Argentine army was tough enough to torture women and children, but not tough enough to capture the Falkland Islands / (sic, says Islas Malvinas, although he mentioned them earlier as Falkland ) “.
“Peter Lanzani delivers an engaging and likeable performance as Luis Moreno Ocampo … And Darín is fantastic as Strassera, the grumpy old veteran who spies on his daughter to find out about his love life, and ends up arguing with Ocampo about how much had been quiet, like all the rest of the ruling class, for most of his career. ”“ It’s a straightforward, muscular and powerful film ”is his closing.
Variety titled “The Dark Weight of History Deepens an Old School Courtroom Film” and the drop ensures that “Santiago Miter’s fact-based procedural drama about the Argentine military junta indictment is not reinventing the genre, it is being awakening in all the right places “.
Guy Lodge wrote there that “It’s no surprise that Amazon Studios faced a film that clearly aims to be both a national hit and an international crossover hit, backed by Ricardo Darín’s dependable star power, his signature softness tempered by a mustache of walrus like Julio Strassera… “.
“Although a warm welcome before the competition in Venice will put him on the right track, Argentina, 1985 is, fittingly enough, a popular film about mafia justice, balancing heartbreaking historical catharsis with hints of humorous domestic comedy and bound to draw crowds with exciting word of mouth.
“It is also a testament to Darin’s compelling star quality, which transforms Strassera into a joyous and noble crusade in a classically heroic way, but with a warm and untidy quirk that keeps any potential toughness at bay …” Strassera’s final argument, he calls it “one of the most compelling and hair-raising speech scenes in recent cinema”.
It’s inside ScreenDaily We read that the film is “a moving judicial thriller by Santiago Miter … Judicial drama with a committed and award-winning interpretation by Ricardo Darín, this tense, long and often entertaining film stands out with the best of the genre …”.
The award ceremony will take place next Saturday, December 10 …
Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
