Reviews

‘Nuestros desaparecidos’ de Juan Mandelbaum. (2009, October 10). José-Christian Páez. Globedia.
“‘Nuestros desaparecidos’ es un filme imprescindible para quienes deseen acercarse desde una visión mesurada, pero profunda, para conocer, para comprender.”
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‘Our Disappeared’ review. (2008, September 29). Robert Koehler. Variety.
“Like an archaeologist looking for a lost civilization, filmmaker Juan Mandelbaum searches for hints and stories of victims of Argentina’s bloody mid-’70s era in the sensitively rendered “Our Disappeared.”
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Grieving the personal and political losses of a revolution. (2008, October 16). Wesley Morris. The Boston Globe.
“Many a man has spent a movie searching for a lost love. Few have wound up telling the story of revolutionary South America in the process.”
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Gerald Peary’s Top Ten Films of the Year. (2008, December 29). The Phoenix: Outside the Frame.
“2008 was another banner year for excellent Boston documentaries. I can name a half-dozen of them, all intelligent, high-minded works. Juan Mandelbaum’s “Our Disappeared” is at the top of the list for its unflinching reopening of Argentina’s dirty war on the left during the 1970s, when thousands of people were murdered, “disappeared,” including a charming ex-girlfriend of the filmmaker. The most chilling moment in a 2008 film: Henry Kissinger, there on the spot in Buenos Aires, blithely endorsing the killing-fields military government.”
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Moving Pictures: Less is more at this year’s Palm Beach International Film Festival (PDF). (2009, April 21). John Thomason. City Link Metromix.
“Our Disappeared” is a great example of the personal-journey documentary, in which the narrator revisits a harrowing past event in order to preserve its memory and provide therapeutic closure.

Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desaparecidos Reviewed by Educational Media Reviews Online. (2009, May 29). Veronica Maher. Roger Williams University
In many cultures one of the worst things that can happen to someone is to be forgotten after death. One survivor quoted St. Augustine “The dead are invisible beings, they are not absent.” This film is about remembering the many thousands of young people in Argentina who disappeared between 1976 and 1982.
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‘Our Disappeared’ Review. (2009, August 9). FilmArcade.Net.
“This is one of those documentaries that I want people to check out….Our Disappeared is a documentary that will leave you in tears, long after the film has ended. Rating: Five Stars.”

Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desaparecidos. Reviewed by Video Librarian. (2009, July).
Incorporating interviews with survivors together with rarely-seen archival footage (including a startling TV clip of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger praising the Argentine dictators), Our Disappeared—which aired on the PBS series Independent Lens—offers a somber human perspective on a tragic chapter in Latin American history. Recommended.

Independent Lens: Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos. (2009, September 21). Cynthia Fuchs. PopMatters.
“Terror consists not only of killing those who have to die,” says writer and historian José Pablo Feinmann, “but also of killing innocent people, so that everyone is fearful.” In Argentina during the 1970s, everyone was fearful.
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