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Based on a horrific true story and already breaking box-office records in Argentina, the movie tells the true story of the Puccio Clan, a family from Buenos Aires that kidnapped four people, three of whom they murdered, in the 1980s.
Some of the movie's political shadings about Argentina in the early '80s may not quickly resonate with American viewers. Still, it's impossible not to be drawn into the unnerving world of the Puccios.
The familiar beats of the crime saga ... are all present and correct. But the dark political and societal subtext makes for a new, discombobulating sensation.
The inclusion of archival footage of Alfonsín and General Galtieri is not only part of Trapero's attention to period detail but also serves to contextualise the film within a wider culture of memory politics.