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A Less Bad World
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Wikipedia article
'A Less Bad World'[https://mubi.com/films/a-less-bad-world A Less Bad World] on MUBI [http://www.labutaca.net/films/28/unmundomenospeor1.htm 'A Less Bad World' on labutaca.net] is a 2004 Argentine drama film directed by Alejandro Agresti and focused on the Argentina's Dirty War.
Plot
In the early 2000s Isabel (Mnica Galn) discovers that her husband Cholo (Carlos Roff), who vanished 20 years before as a 'desaparecido', a victim of the Dirty War by the Argentine military junta, is still alive. She decides to meet him again and, together with her daughters, travels to the small sea village near Patagonia where he has moved to. Her two daughters are Sonia (Julieta Cardinali), the adolescent daughter of Cholo that has never met her father, and Beba (Agustina Noya), a girl of around 8 years old, daughter of another man. [http://www.asaeca.org/imagofagia/sitio/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56%3Alos-lenguajes-del-recuerdo-en-un-mundo-menos-peor-de-alejandro-agresti-beatriz-urraca&catid=34&Itemid=61 'A Less Bad World' on "Imagofagia"]
Once in the village, Isabel at first doesn't feel able to meet Cholo, who works as a baker. Apparently, he has told the villagers that his family died in a car accident. When Isabel meets Cholo, the man appears not to recognize her. During the film the choice of Cholo is explained: he vanished from Buenos Aires trying to forget the trauma of the years of the dictatorship, when he and Isabel were communist militants, and he was imprisoned and tortured for a period. In the end, after a long letter written by Sonia to her father, Cholo decides to resume contact with the three women.
Cast
*Carlos Roff: 'Cholo'[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385889/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm Cast of 'A Less Bad World'] at the Internet Movie Database
*Mnica Galn: 'Isabel'
*Julieta Cardinali: 'Sonia'
*Mex Urtizberea: 'Miguel'
*Ulises Dumont: 'Mario'
*Rodrigo Noya: 'Marcelo'
*Lidia Catalano: 'Floria'
*Agustina Noya: 'Beba'
*Eduardo Argaranaz: 'Lalo'
Awards
*2004: Best Film of the "Award of the City of Rome" (61st Venice International Film Festival)[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000681/2004 2004 Venice Film Festival awards] at the Internet Movie Database
References
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