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    A Twelve-Year Night (Álvaro Brechner)


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    This is certainly a solid movie about a subject that deserves such a work - the 12 years Pepe Mujica, Huidobro and Rosencof, members of the Tupamaro guerrilla outfit, spent imprisoned without trial in sub human conditions by the Uruguayan dictatorship. Antonio De la Torre does a superb work as Mujica. He doesn't resemble him physically but he makes the character his own and runs with it, making you believe in a man of stubborn will and unflinching convictions.

    However, I was a little underwhelmed by some scenes which were filled with clichés and I'm getting a bit tired of the tendency of portraying military figures as fundamentally dumb people, as if fascists needs to be clueless as well as evil. I first noticed this in Guillermo Del Toro's Civil War films and I've seen it countless times since. I still recommend the film, specially since I don't know how well known the historical facts are outside South America.

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