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Imagining Argentina (movie) - Definition and Overview |
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Movie poster for Imagining Argentina Imagining Argentina is a 2003 film directed and written by Christopher Hampton. The movie is nominated for the "Golden Lion" award at 2003 Venice Film Festival. The film is adapted from an award-winning novel of the same title by Lawrence Thornton.
Tagline: An extraordinary story of love, compassion and danger.
Plot
The movie is set during the Dirty War in the 1970s Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the military government is abducting those opposed to its rule. Cecilia, a dissident journalist, is kidnapped by the secret police to join the ranks of the 'Disappeared'. As her husband Carlos, a theatre director, searches frantically for her, he develops psychic power that enables him to predict the future, hence being able to witness what happens to his wife and other detainees.
The movie has graphic images of suffering such as the rape and torture scenes of Cecilia and her daughter Teresa.
The closing caption mentions that around 30,000 Argentineans disappeared between 1976 and 1983.
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Example Usage of Imagining |
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NeverShoutJesss: Now I am Imagining @andyclemmensen singing Spice girls |
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supercoolkp: @bounder I'm now Imagining it as an episode of Celebrity Deathmatch … :D |
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jainibah: it's a fan fic where u're Imagining urself in the person's place. wishing for it to come true. oh god. |
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