Missing

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This was a great film and I was kind of shocked when I watched last night. First I had a doubt since <Z> the movie Costa Gavras made back in his country was kind of boring perhaps because that was when I was very young when I watched. But this one was not. It was gripping and sad, perhaps scary to death as well. It's not because this is a horror movie. It's a political thriller I might say.Sissy Spacek' husbans and her herself were living in Chile and one day Sissy's husband just dissapeared all of a sudden. His father comes from America to find him as well. Team up with his daughter in law, they try to find him desperately only to figure out that he is nowhere.Throughout the film, Vangelis' great music effects the mood so much. There are actually two different kinds of music he made. 1. Very soft and tender keyboard sound that sustains and touches the charactors' emotions 2. Showing the charactor's tensed and nervous mind by using futuristic sound also using keyboard sound just like one of the BLADE RUNNER music that he also worked for.It is a great shame that the dvd movie was mono that I can only hear mono.Jack Lemmon was always a great actor. He is one of the few actor who really acts with his heart. Mostely he worked as a comedian but a few works he've done were all so succesful such as <Days of Wine and Roses><Glengarry Glenross ><The China Syndrome> he was oscar worth actor in them all.In this movie, he was acting this heart chilling performance as well. Whenever he delivers each lines, he just chew and chew before he actually says it.It is always delightful to see Sissy Spacek again. I only remember her from <Carrie> although I have liked all of her movies. She is just getting better nad better each time I see her new movies. I mean not new new but whenever I open new dvds that I own already.This movie is so great because of the music, performance, directing, script and phase. All together memorable.If only I can watch this movie again with stereo sound, I can pay anything.

Costa-Gavras shot his controversial 'State of Siege' in Chile not long before the violent US-backed Allende coup. Maybe it's that familiarity with the locale that makes Costa-Gavras' 'Missing' seem so authentic.More than just a startling vision of day-to-day life in the aftermath of a violent coup, there's much more of a feeling for the place and what ordinary people lost in the coup. There's a real sense of chaos in its imagery - dead bodies littering the streets as people try to go about their daily business or floating by in rivers, soldiers chasing and shooting at a white horse through deserted streets or diners on a rooftop garden leaving their means to watch a helicopter gunship shoot at unseen curfew violators. The sheer casual and irrational nature of violence ("You Americans always assume there has to be a reason") gives the film a palpable sense of terror and dread: this is a place where even an earthquake can't get people out onto the dangerous streets after curfew.The fact that this time round Costa-Gavras had a Hollywood budget to play with helps immensely, but he also has a script based around people who aren't defined strictly by their politics - indeed, the movie is basically a search for `a political neophyte' by a gruff and unlikeable conservative (Jack Lemmon, on excellent form) and the missing man's wife (Sissy Spacek), a search that takes in embassies crowded with asylum seekers, morgues with hundreds of bodies piled almost haphazardly and the national football stadium that has been turned into a vast prison/torture chamber/place of execution. It's an outraged film but it's also one aware of its own impotence - this is a journey from hope to bitter and exhausted acceptance that there is nothing that an individual can do in the face of politically expedient mass murder.It's easily Costa-Gavras' real enduring masterpiece, having lost none of its power more than a quarter of a century on, and its sobering to think that there was a time when movies like this weren't just mainstream releases, they were also big box-office. It's just a shame that Universal's DVD is such a shoddy disc - it doesn't even have a menu page! This is a film that really does deserve the Criterion treatment (which it will finally be getting later in 2008), or a special edition at the very least (there's already one available in France). But buy it anyway for the film itself.

still packs a punch after all these years

Un film che conserva malgrado il tempo trascorso una intatta fragranza emotiva. Attori eccezionali.Puntuale e rispettosa la consegna.

Costa-Gavras est un génie quand il s'agit de réaliser un drame politique. Ici, c'est le Chili et les intérêts américains qui sont en cause. Un journaliste américain à tendance gauchiste,, Charles Horman, est en poste à Santiago lors du putsch de septembre 1973 alors que l'armée renverse un gouvernement légitimement élu. Horman disparait le jour du coup d'État. Son père et sa femme enquêtent sur cette disparition. Ils s'aperçoivent petit à petit que le gouvernement américain a aidé l'armée chilienne à s'emparer du pouvoir. Les intérêts économiques et politiques ont passé avant les droits humains. Sissy Spacek et Jack Lemmon jouent excellemment leur rôle. Le père est un conservateur qui n'aime pas les idées progressistes de sa bru et ses vues sur le putsch. il s'aperçoit petit à petit qu'elle a raison. Il tombe alors de haut. Costa-Gavras a fait de ce film une sorte de chef d'œuvre basé sur un fait vécu. La musique de Vangelis, qui l'accompagne, est absolument sublime. À voir absolument.

les films tournés de Gavras en Europe étaient un peu rigides, mes acteurs manifestement mal à l'aise semblaient monter que leur engagement politique étouffaient complétement l'expression de leurs sentiments; Ce film qui soulève des questions sur les victimes étrangères emprisonnés, torturés et assassinés par la junte argentine, révèle par ailleurs un acteur extraordinaire de sincérité: un père à la recherche de son fils dans un pays étranger, un fils soupçonné car hors des critères sociaux envisagés par un père, qui avec l'aide de sa belle fille se rend peu à peu à l'évidence que ce qui est advenu de son fils est un compromis voire une collusion entre la réation argentine et les services de renseignements américains; Du cinéma quasi reportage tant il est vrai

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