Blessed by Fire(Iluminados por el fuego)

Village Voice by

Tristán Bauer's new war movie has an even more bitterly ironic title in Spanish: "Iluminados por El Fuego" or "Enlightened by Fire."

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

The morbid and gripping war film Blessed by Fire, from the Argentine filmmaker Tristán Bauer, is well worth a look.

Variety by Jonathan Holland

A watchable if none-too-penetrating analysis of the traumatizing effects of a war largely forgotten.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Blessed by Fire, a bitter remembrance of the Falklands War in 1982, captures battlefield chaos and confusion with a visceral force you won't forget.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

The battlefield sequences unfold with surreal horror, while the human bonding in the foxholes emerges tenderly. On the downside, Bauer - who makes no pretense about where his heart lies - tacks on a melodramatic coda that lessens the momentum of an otherwise praiseworthy film.