Anxiety is an infernal machine, an inevitable part of human existence, but more than one knew that Argentina, 1985 could not -did it really deserve it?- win the Oscar
for
best foreign film.
The "dream" of the third will be left for another time
.
The Oscar for best international film went to
All Quiet On The Western Front
,
an
ambitious war film,
with a taste for remakes
, directed by the German Edward Berger.
Santiago Mitre,
Ricardo Darín and
Peter Lanzani,
on behalf of our very worthy local credit, applauded like good losers and everything suggests that they will return with their heads held high after being useful and committed to the cause of continuing to shed light on a horrible moment in this country.
Santiago Miter with Dolores Fonzi, and Ricardo Darín, with Florencia Bas, at the Oscars.
Photo Frederic J. Brown / AFP
there is always a why
But he couldn't win.
In the field of subjectivities, she didn't deserve it either.
It was all enthusiasm.
It was
typical World Cup inertia
.
Three reasons:
The most obvious of all has to do with the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which continues to be a real ongoing scourge:
Hollywood, a megaphone fond of political correctness, couldn't miss it
and for that it had a film on hand. next.
Darín implied that because of the "handle" that existed around
Argentina, 1985
, the triumphalist climate led to a logical "disappointment" with a taste of defeat.
He nonetheless acknowledged that the winner,
All Quiet on the Front
, was a "great" film.
The second cause
, perhaps less predictable, is that the Academy had already awarded this theme with
The Official Story
(1985), an Argentine film about the Dictatorship, the same as
Argentina, 1985
, another (Argentine) film about the Dictatorship.
For us, the film did nothing more than reactivate all the debates and questions that
The official story motivated,
arriving late
,
almost 40 years late!, to the central figure of a key man like
Julio César Strassera
, the prosecutor who tried for first time to the heads of the last military dictatorship.
The role was stupendously immortalized by Ricardo Darín
.
The actor knows that thanks to his moving performance, a lot of people, adults and children, will finally know who this man was, to whom, curiously, History had not done justice.
The problem?
it is that if we take so long to legitimize a man who will probably be a street, square or small square in the near future, it should be understood that, outside the gates, the greater recognition would sound redundant or would seem "more of the same".
It is easier to ask for pears from the elm than niceties from Hollywood.
Accustomed to kicking in the middle of the goal, we imagine the faces of the Oscar guys when, ufff, they got another film about the Argentine Dictatorship...
And there is more...
Santiago Miter and Ricardo Darin, Argentine presence at the Oscars 2023. Photo Valerie Macon/ AFP)
The third reason
is that, in this case, the beloved presence of Ricardo Darín plays against.
For the average Argentine - it must be said once and for all -
Argentina 1985,
the film about the Trial of the Juntas, is simply Darín's last.
What's more, from now on, Strassera will have the face of our flagship actor.
Darín starred in four Oscar-nominated films:
El hijo de la novia
(2001),
El secreto de sus ojos
(2009, winner of the award),
Wild Tales
(2014)
and
the recent
Argentina, 1985.
In other words, the film directed by
Santiago Miter
became the
eighth Argentine film
to receive an award nomination from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood.
Of those eight films, Darín worked on half.
Now let's try to imagine the notable panel of the Hollywood Academy thinking aloud: “WTF, again a movie with that kind of light eyes?!...What's up?!
Don't they have another actor in Argentina?
WD
look also
Joaquín Sabina started his shows in Argentina, with a farewell flavor
How is All Quiet on the Front, the film that won the Oscar 2023 for Ricardo Darín and Argentina, 1985