SpIFF: Te Extrano
Being 15 years old can be difficult for anyone, but it’s especially hard for Javier, who is coming of age in late-’70s Argentina, at the beginning of a military coup that will eventually “disappear” 30,000 dissidents and leftist agitators. One of those, we find, will be Javier’s beloved older brother, Adrian, who returns from army duty and quickly falls in with a band of young and overly optimistic revolutionaries. One night, Adrian — who is already under government suspicion — heads to a meeting that he suspects may be a trap. He never returns. Javier’s adoring parents quickly spirit him away to his uncle’s house in Mexico, where he reels from his brother’s selfish and mysterious disappearance while wrestling with his own lack of revolutionary zeal. (Argentina/Mexico | 106 mins)
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Saturday, February 05, 2011 | 2:30 pm | $10; $5


