19th Portland Jewish Film Festival
I MISS YOU
DIRECTOR: FABIAN HOFMAN
ARGENTINA, 2010
A sensitive portrayal of a boy’s journey into adulthood, complicated by the travails of growing up under a violent dictatorship, I MISS YOU is set during Argentina’s infamous, bloody Dirty War of the 1970s. High schooler Javier and his older brother Adrian are swept up in the violence plaguing the country. When the boys are blacklisted because of Adrian’s involvement with the Resistance protests, Adrian is “disappeared” and Javier is sent by his middle-class Jewish parents to Mexico to live with relatives. Separated from the brother he idolizes and far from home, Javier presses his family to confront the truth they know in their hearts but cannot bring themselves to face. (95 mins.)
Family friendly.