Le film raconte les 12 années d'emprisonnement vécues par trois des figures les plus célèbres de l'Uruguay. Les trois otages mènent une lutte existentielle pour échapper à une terrible réali... Tout lireLe film raconte les 12 années d'emprisonnement vécues par trois des figures les plus célèbres de l'Uruguay. Les trois otages mènent une lutte existentielle pour échapper à une terrible réalité qui les condamne à la folie.Le film raconte les 12 années d'emprisonnement vécues par trois des figures les plus célèbres de l'Uruguay. Les trois otages mènent une lutte existentielle pour échapper à une terrible réalité qui les condamne à la folie.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Récompenses
- 47 victoires et 31 nominations au total
- Graciela
- (as Silvia Pérez Cruz)
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I liked this movie very much because it is based on true events and because it presents the big fight that these three men fought for twelve years. This movie shows also the true face of military dictatorship and what is able to do if nobody fights back and let it act freely. About the direction which was made by Álvaro Brechner who is also the writer, I have to admit that I was happily surprised by it and I believe that his job in this movie was simply exceptional. I also enjoyed the interpretations of Antonio de la Torre who played as José Mujica, Alfonso Tort who played as Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro and Chino Darín who played as Mauricio Rosencof. Another good but short interpretation that has to be mentioned was Soledad Villamil's who played as Psiquiatra.
In conclusion, I have to say that "A Twelve-Year Night" (La noche de 12 años) is an amazing movie with an interesting plot, an exceptional direction, and many good scenes. If you are a fan of Latin America movies like "Nueve reinas", "El Secreto de Sus Ojos", "Wild Tales" and "Nieve negra" then this is the movie you have to watch because I am sure that you are going to love it. But even if you haven't watched any of these movies I believe that you are going to enjoy watching it for all the previous reasons I wrote.
Moreover, the song of Simon and Garfunkel, "The Sound of Silence", interpreted almost a cappella by Silvia Pérez Cruz, moves the audience to the tears. A rare emotional force in perfect harmony with the movie!
Finally, in order to quibble a little bit, two hardly credible scenes: 1) A blindfold chess game via a Morse-code communication? 2) All the Uruguayan military bureaucracy would be necessary to realize the impossibility of defecating in a vertical position? Allow me doubting about these two scenes, but it's so comforting to imagine these men trying to break their loneliness (for the first one), and it's so hilarious (for the second one).
As a synthesis: what a masterful work!!
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesThe prison scenes were recorded in the old fort of San Cristobal (near Pamplona, Spain), a place used as a political prison of another dictatorship: Francoism in Spain. Some prisoners escaped from this prison, an event that is seen in the documentary "Ezkaba, la gran fuga de las cárceles franquistas" (2006)
- Citations
José Mujica: What do you think they are? Nuns in a charity?
Lucy: Shut up! Shut up! Listen to me! I'm the one you have to listen to! I'm your mother. They want to drive you crazy. You can't let them. Do you understand?
José Mujica: Mom...
Lucy: Mom my ass! Listen to me. Listen to what I have to say. You have to resist. Resist any way you can, no matter what happens. Resist and don't let them kill you.
José Mujica: I don't know what to do.
Lucy: Yes, you do. The only defeated are the ones who stop fighting. You'll get through this and move on. And nobody... Nobody will take what you have inside.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Premios Goya 33 edición (2019)
- Bandes originalesSiga el baile
Lyrics by Carlos Warren
Music by Edgardo Donato
Performed by Sílvia Pérez Cruz (as Silvia Pérez Cruz)
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- A Twelve-Year Night
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Box-office
- Montant brut mondial
- 825 391 $US
- Durée2 heures 2 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1