A Less Bad World

A Less Bad World^[1] (Spanish: Un mundo menos peor, also known as Todo el bien del mundo)^[2] is a 2004 Argentine drama film directed by Alejandro Agresti and focused on the Argentina's Dirty War.

Plot

In early 2000s Isabel (Mónica Galán) discovers that her husband Cholo (Carlos Roffé), vanished 20 years before as desaparecido, victim of the Dirty War by the Argentine military junta, is still alive and lives in a sea village near Patagonia. So she decides to meet him again and travels with her daughters: Sonia (Julieta Cardinali), daughter of Cholo that has never met his father, and Beba (Agustina Noya), a little girl daughter of another man.^[2][3]

In the village, for a long time Isabel doesn't feel able to meet Cholo, who works as a baker and to the villagers told that his family died in a car accident. When Isabel meets Cholo, the man appears not to recognize her. During the film the choice of Cholo is explained: he vanished from Buenos Aires trying to remove the trauma of the years of the dictatorship, when he and Isabel were communist militants, and he was imprisoned and tortured for a period. In the end, after a long letter written by Sonia to her father, Cholo decides to resume contacts with the three women.^[2][3]

Cast

Awards

• 2004: Best Film of the "Award of the City of Rome" (61st Venice International Film Festival)^[5]

References

External links

• A Less Bad World at the Internet Movie Database