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  • 2004
  • Not Rated
  • Women Make Movies
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2004
  • Not Rated
  • Women Make Movies
  • 1 h 29 m
The Blonds

Summary In 1977, when she was four years old, Albertina Carri's parents vanished without a trace, victims of Argentina's brutal military junta. In this fresh and politically daring film, the young Argentinian filmmaker attempts to unravel the mystery, piecing together her memories and fantasies in a quest to understand her parents' untimely fat...

Directed By: Albertina Carri

Written By: Albertina Carri, Alan Pauls, Santiago Giralt

  • 2004
  • Not Rated
  • Women Make Movies
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2004
  • Not Rated
  • Women Make Movies
  • 1 h 29 m

The Blonds

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary In 1977, when she was four years old, Albertina Carri's parents vanished without a trace, victims of Argentina's brutal military junta. In this fresh and politically daring film, the young Argentinian filmmaker attempts to unravel the mystery, piecing together her memories and fantasies in a quest to understand her parents' untimely fat...

Directed By: Albertina Carri

Written By: Albertina Carri, Alan Pauls, Santiago Giralt

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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43% Positive
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57% Mixed
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0% Negative
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What distinguishes the movie is its inventive, multifaceted way of questioning whether the "truth" of past events can ever be separated from the memories, longings, and scanty evidence that inextricably surrounds it.
By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW
80
Unpretentiously poetic and casually stylish, yet perversely precise. Reconstructing the past, Carri seems to suggest, is akin to grabbing the water in a flowing stream.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
63
Because Albertina Carri spends so much time skirting relevant issues, her self-consciously experimental examination into her parents' murder feels like a worthy movie that simply wasn't ready to be made.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
60
It is not so much a documentary as a fictional film about the making of a documentary, or perhaps a documentary about the making of a fictional film about the making of a documentary. If this sounds a bit maddening, it is, though the confusion that The Blonds induces is clearly part of its intention.
By Dana Stevens FULL REVIEW
60
It's a complex new approach toward putting memory to tape, and the result can be at times too theoretical, too personal and too opaque, but it's a consistently challenging work that's often sharply poignant.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
50
Grapples with tough subject matter, and earns a little leeway in its approach.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
50
Treads a delicate line between documentary and fiction to reconstruct the kidnapping and murder of director Albertina Carri's parents during the military dictatorship.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Cine Ojo
Release Date Apr 7, 2004
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Clarín Entertainment Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Gijón International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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