María is eighteen years old, she lives with her mother in an old house in Buenos Aires in 1978, subletting rooms and giving classes to poor illiterate adults. Suddenly she is abducted by a military squad and finds herself accused of subversion and submitted to torture in the hideous underground of the Garage Olimpo, while her mother desperately tries to find her.
Acting
Antonella Costa's eyes carry entire Argentina's unprocessed grief.
Direction
Bechis shoots torture like mundane bureaucracy — somehow worse.
Production
The actual Garage Olimpo location makes your stomach drop.
Director
Marco Bechis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Garage Olimpo was a real clandestine detention center in Buenos Aires; the film's release in 1999 reopened national wounds just as Argentina was prosecuting Dirty War crimes.
Director Marco Bechis cast actual survivors and relatives of the disappeared in small roles — the mother searching for María is played by someone who lived this.
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