A memory film that begins with a young med student returning after a nine-year absence to "a place that no longer exists" (immediate air of mystery), the place, more specifically, of his coming-of-age, the place in the Argentine hinterlands to which his Peronist parents had retreated after a term of exile in Spain (discreet political comment), the small-pond place in which the two of them could be big fish, as schoolteacher and doctor, respectively, and as co-founders of a co-operative of sheepherders to stand up to the oppressive landowner. The title refers not so much to that geographic place in specific as to a personal sense of belonging and rootedness and purpose, and to the infinitely replayed search for such a place, and to one exemplary search for it replayed here in flashback. Directed by Adolfo Aristarain, this is a thoroughly professional piece of filmmaking, with a fluid and unobtrusive visual technique and an expansive, novelistic method of narrative. Provided the Leftism of the main characters presents you with no insurmountable obstacle, they are a pleasure to be around, a pleasure to get to know. And there is something approximate to authentic heroic stature about them, dignity, decency, moral backbone. With Federico Luppi, Cecilia Roth, Jose Sacristan, Gaston Batyi. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd
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