Imagining Argentina (2003)

I understand that this film was roundly booed when it was shown at Cannes and I certainly don't understand why.  Grant you it was a depressing subject, but one based on reality and it was reasonably well put together.  The setting is Buenos Aires in1976: Emma Thompson is a journalist and her husband, Antonio Banderas, runs a children's theatre group.  One afternoon the police come for her and she joins the "disappeared".  Banderas tries to find her through official channels, but no joy.  As he begins to involve himself with other relatives of the missing, he discovers he has psychic powers which enable him not just to visualise the tortures his wife is enduring but also to tell the others about their loved ones.  His theatre group becomes more political but he himself is not taken away -- his theatre associate and his teenaged daughter are (and neither survive the ordeal).  As a manifestation of sheer evil one must accept that the film paints an accurate picture of what was happening in Argentina at that time and what continues to occur even today in many other countries.  It was hardly a comfortable film to watch, but not one that should have been mocked even if one was pushed to believe Banderas' second sight.