THE OFFICIAL STORY Clip
In Luis Puenzo’s masterful 1985 political drama La Historia oficial / The Official Story, co-written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik, Norma Aleandro stars as a teacher who discovers an unsettling connection between her adopted daughter and Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship. Hector Alterio plays the husband with a secret.
In the clip below (in Spanish, no subtitles), a family reunion becomes the stage for a series of personal recriminations. While Argentina suffered in the grip of its right-wing military and their sponsors, only those Argentineans with connections to the establishment managed to move up the social ladder. Alterio’s character was one of them.
Aleandro’s performance — one of the greatest in film history — earned her best actress awards in Cannes and from the New York Film Critics Circle. The Official Story also won a series of awards, including that year’s best foreign-language film Oscar.
Clip posted by leosargento.
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Norma Aleandro isa maginficent actress. She should have won the Academy Award. Those people at the Academy don’t know what’s good. They go with the money.
They also go with what’s Hollywood. No matter how great, few foreign films (not in English) have received nominations in the acting categories.