Clandestine Childhood
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 7, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Film Movement
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Teo Gutierrez Romero, Natalia Oreiro, Ernesto Alterio, César Troncoso & Christina Banegas | |
Directed by | Benjamin Avila | |
Screenwriting by | Benjamin Avila & Marcelo Muller | |
Music Performer: | Divididos | |
Composition by | Pedro Onetto & Marta Roca | |
Director of Photography: | Ivan Gierasinchuk |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
Benjamín Ávila structures the film as a series of precious moments, remembrances of a difficult year when the politics of patria and family got in the way of his puppy love.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Ávila can't quite thread the needle between telling his personal story and connecting it to larger social currents.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2.5/5 --
When a filmmaker proves as reluctant as Mr. Ávila to speak up about the past, to engage with its full complexity, it can be hard to hear what he's saying.
New York Times
The pic has strong moments, but is bogged down by a script that regurgitates standard-issue ideas without finding anything interesting to say.
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Variety
A solemn reverie about an urban guerrilla mother in revolutionary struggle, and the maternal ideal as ambivalent myth and martyr. Giving rise to the contemplation of art as an act of necessity, and the creative journey of the life of an idea in a film.
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WBAI Radio
Rating: 3/5 --
Outré flourishes don't fully lift the story past the limitations of innocence-lost storytelling.
Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
The calmer scenes are staged in staid and somewhat clunky fashion, but the graphic animation depicting the worst moments is starkly effective.
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New York Daily News
Product Description:
Director Benjamin Avila delivers this semi-autobiographical drama centered on the experiences of an Argentinean youth who returns to his home country from exile in 1979, and is forced to take on an assumed identity as his revolutionary parents plot to dismantle the military dictatorship that holds the country's citizens in the grip of fear. Years after fleeing Argentina in fear, 12-year-old Juan (Teo Gutiérrez Moreno) quietly returns home with his parents Horacio (César Troncoso) and Charo (Natalia Oreiro). In order to ensure their true identities remain carefully hidden as they plot their uprising, Juan's parents claim to hail from the north part of the country. Meanwhile, Juan enrolls in the local school under the name "Ernesto". By day, the likable young boy makes numerous friends in the classroom, and even catches the eye of a pretty girl. But as Juan does his best not to break role, his parents and his idiosyncratic uncle Beto (Ernesto Alterio) use Beto's Buenos Aires-based chocolate peanut company as their secret headquarters. All the while, the young boy fights to reconcile his deep-rooted desire to see freedom prevail with his mourning of the childhood that was never meant to be.
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- UPC: 616892185468
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