ARGENTINA/CHILE: Mi mejor enemigo (My Best Enemy). 2005

Director: Alex Bowen
Stars: Erto Pantoja, Nicolás Saavedra, Felipe Braun, Miguel Dedovich, Juan Pablo Miranda.
Release date: Argentina - 5 Jan 2006
Length: 100mins

The trailer for this Chilean/Argentine co-production looks magnificent. Let's hope it gets inclusion into this years Spanish Film Festival (yes, they show films that are Spanish language, not necessarily from Spain itself). They also show too many damn films that deal with sexually frustrated 40yr old women in disfunctional relationships..maybe not tata exactly, but far too many relationship type films taht appeal to over 40 arty types. Kinda gets a bit samey after awhile. Seems to me that the South American countries are now starting to make films about their military skirmishes. See above.

Synopsis
A profound indictment of war’s cruel futility from first-time writer-director-producer Alex Bowen. Set in 1978, during “the war that never was” (a border dispute between Chile and Argentina), a Chilean border patrol unit gets lost in the Argentine pampas, then locked down in a trench with Argentine troops. Stalemate gives way to a truce, but when fighter planes and tanks arrive, the friends are forced once again to fight.

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