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Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes31%
Metacritic27/100
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do.
58 audience votes
Key crew
- Christopher HamptonDirector
- George FentonOriginal Music Composer
- Christopher HamptonWriter
Cast
- Antonio BanderasCarlos Rueda
- Emma ThompsonCecilia Rueda
- Leticia DoleraTeresa Rueda
- Maria Canals-BarreraEsme Palomares
- Rubén BladesSilvio Ayala
- Irene EscolarEurydice
- Fernando TielveOrfeo / Enrico
- Héctor BordoniPedro Augustín
- Anthony Diaz-PerezPoliceman 1
- Luis Antonio RamosPoliceman 2
- Carlos KaniowskyRubén Mendoza
- Stella MarisConcepta Madrid