"The Official Story" plot appears in depth both on its IMDB.com home page and in user comments. A thumbnail, however, is: A bourgeois Buenos Aires high school history teacher and mother of an adopted 5 year old girl begins to suspect her daughter may have been born to one of Argentina's thousands of missing people (Los Desaparecidos) who disappeared (probably kidnapped, tortured, etc.) while the nation was in the grip of a junta (1976-1983). This Oscar winner is a very well directed and acted human drama with ominous rumbling political undercurrents which stays focused on Aleandro's sterling portrayal of the mother though it does raise the specter of tainted official history. Unfortunately the DVD I rented had VHS quality video and white subtitles with no outline (making them difficult to read on light backgrounds). Recommended for foreign film buffs and Spanish speakers into drama. (B)
Review of The Official Story
