2022 · drama · history
Argentina, 1985
Directed by Santiago Mitre2h 21m2022
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.
Our read: Argentina, 1985 (2022) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- twisty
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