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The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis

La larga noche de Francisco Sanctis

2016

Andrea Testa, Francisco Márquez

Diego Velázquez, Laura Paredes, Valeria Lois, Marcelo Subiotto, Rafael Federman

6.3

431

Drama Buenos Aires, 1977. The military dictatorship governs the country. Office clerk Francisco Sanctis leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. His routine is upset one afternoon when an old friend he hasn’t seen for 20 years calls unexpectedly. She needs Francisco to sign an authorisation to publish a revolutionary poem he wrote long ago for a school bulletin. When they meet, Elena confesses that the poem was an excuse and gives ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jay Weissberg Variety	"The directors suffuse their drama with a sense of paranoia and constant surveillance, chillingly capturing the fear of one man forced into a moral dilemma"
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"That the directors, who also wrote the adaptation, can make audiences read all these ideas between the lines of the film's scant dialogue is a testament to their skills as filmmakers."
		Slant	"[It tries] to focus on what few films on this era have examined, which is how even those who believed themselves neutral were, in fact, profoundly affected by a culture of silence and oppression"
		Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"[A] small but effective film"
		J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"Plodding (...) It's a long night all right, though it may have been longer for me than for him."

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