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Argentina, United States · 2003
1h 29m
Director Albertina Carri
Starring Analía Couceyro, Albertina Carri, Santiago Giralt, Jesica Suárez
Genre Documentary
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In 1977, when she was four years old, Albertina Carri's parents vanished without a trace. 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 fate as victims of Argentina's brutal military junta.
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
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.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
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.
Treads a delicate line between documentary and fiction to reconstruct the kidnapping and murder of director Albertina Carri's parents during the military dictatorship.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
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.
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.
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.
Grapples with tough subject matter, and earns a little leeway in its approach.
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