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Blessed by Fire(Iluminados por el fuego)

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Argentina, Spain · 2005
1h 40m
Director Tristán Bauer
Starring Gastón Pauls, Virginia Innocenti, Pablo Ribba, César Albarracín
Genre Drama, War

Argentine film about the experiences of conscripts in the Falklands War.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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