For avid readers, literary adaptations can be a source of both excitement and contention. Will the visual language of the film match the landscape in your head? Can the director capture that elusive ...

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Rodolfo Walsh was a journalist, writer and political leader of the Montoneros Movement, who was disappeared by a “task group” for his opposition to the Argentine military dictatorship. The memorial ...