The Honorary Consul [DVD]

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Visiting the town brothel with Saavedra, Plarr is attracted to a girl, Clara, but she is taken by another man. Plarr is again summoned to the shack, this time to treat Fortnum for a gunshot wound sustained while trying to flee from a latrine.

The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. The Honorary Consul is a 1983 British drama film directed by John Mackenzie and starring Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins and Elpidia Carrillo. The film was produced by Norma Heyman, the first British woman to produce a solo independent feature film. He accepts the fact that he is not the father of the baby, and even suggests naming the child Eduardo, after Plarr. They tell Plarr his father is alive and in a jail in Paraguay, and that they have a plot for which a doctor's assistance is needed to kidnap the US Ambassador on his trip to Corrientes to see ruins.The action is based upon a book by Graham Greene, a morality tale in which Greene shows how a seemingly mild injustice leads to catastrophic consequences for an apparently innocent man.

During the Dirty War, a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. In the final analysis, though it starts nobly, the movie does not accomplish what it set out to do: i. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The one character who is neither confused nor mechanical is the honorary consul, played by Michael Caine in an outstanding per- formance.During a dirty war a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. Charley Fortnum first comes across as a boozing has-been, but in the end, he is the voice of reason and humanity in the face of an insane, inhuman mess. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The Honorary Consul is a much more complicated, mysterious work than one might suspect from this rather literal if quite faithful condensation.

On this level the movie succeeds, but there are too many loose ends in the plot and some lackluster performances. Read all During the Dirty War, a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces.This is a mildly interesting picture for viewers who like a hint of subtlety to spice their viewing experience. We are supposed to believe that a Latin American dictator has been committing atrocities, but what effective recourse the revolutionaries have against him is never fully explained. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

The staff of Variety wrote that "strong talents on both sides of the camera haven’t managed to breathe life into this intricate tale of emotional and political betrayal and [the] result is a steady dose of tedium. Nonetheless, he finds himself obsessed by Clara and seduces her with a pair of highly decorative sunglasses. The film was produced by Norma Heyman, marking the first time that a British woman entirely produced an independent feature film in history.Fortnum spends much of his time, as he faces up to his impending death, sentimentalizing about Clara and remembering the fearsome figure of his father. Rivas and Aquino take Plarr to a squalid hut in a shanty town while bargaining with the authorities. His English father remained in Paraguay as a political rebel and, aside from a single hand-delivered letter, they never hear from him again. Plarr's mother, once a beauty and now bloated, along with some of his previous mistresses, attends his funeral.