Lorsqu'un écrivain américain idéaliste disparaît lors du coup d'État chilien de septembre 1973, sa femme et son père tentent de le retrouver.Lorsqu'un écrivain américain idéaliste disparaît lors du coup d'État chilien de septembre 1973, sa femme et son père tentent de le retrouver.Lorsqu'un écrivain américain idéaliste disparaît lors du coup d'État chilien de septembre 1973, sa femme et son père tentent de le retrouver.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Récompensé par 1 Oscar
- 12 victoires et 23 nominations au total
- Paris
- (as Martin Lasalle)
Govras chose as background for his film the actual diaries of Charles Horman, a lefty artist type who was living with his wife Beth in Chile. Horman had apparently picked up the unfortunate habit of inquiring into some dangerous affairs in a rather loud way. Isolated in every sense from any "live" political current, his disappearance and murder were relatively easy to accomplish, even though he was a United States citizen. The actor John Shea portrays Charles Horman as a naive sort, and there is no reason to assume this was an inaccurate depiction. Most citizens of the United States overseas are sheltered from the skulduggery of realpolitik, and most cling to some rather dangerous illusions about how far their rights as citizens actually extend. U.S. citizens in Lebanon who had to pay for their removal from that combat front last summer have learned this the hard way recently.
Jack Lemmon is stellar as Charles' father Ed Horman, who made the trip to Chile under the impression that he had rights his government felt bound to respect, and who discovered otherwise. And Cissy Spacek is never anything less than full marks as Beth Horman.
MISSING accomplishes what few political dramas do. It asks its viewer to consider the human dimensions and costs of an imperial political reality, and it portrays with a deadly earnestness what these ideas do to people caught up in the sway of such notions. There are no monsters in MISSING, just people who are doing their jobs and following orders. And therein lies the horror, one which all too many of our fellow citizens have yet to come to grips with. It is a rare feat among political films, an actual work of art. But don't be surprised if you need a stiff drink after viewing it. That's how I felt when I first saw this work after its release in 1982, and it still has that effect upon me today.
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesDuring the Pinochet dictatorship, which ran from 1973 to 1990, this picture was banned in Chile.
- GaffesIn the scene where Jack Lemmon is at the State Department early in the movie trying to get information about Charlie, there is the presidential portrait of Richard Nixon on the wall in the background and a more personal photo of him on Marine One on the credenza behind the desk. That photograph, with fingers in the V-peace sign, was taken upon his final departure from the White House in 1974 and could not have been on someone's desk in 1973.
- Citations
Consul Phil Putnam: Please try to understand. There are so many cases. They're all so important, and this isn't the only one we're working on.
Ed Horman: It's the only one I care about.
Consul Phil Putnam: You and a lot of other people. Listen, I've never seen so many cables from Washington. What kind of pull do you have up there anyway?
Ed Horman: I'm an American citizen.
- Bandes originalesMy Ding a Ling
(1952)
Written by Chuck Berry (uncredited)
Performed by Chuck Berry
Courtesy of All Platinum Records, Inc.
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- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langues
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Missing
- Lieux de tournage
- Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexique(as Vina del Mar)
- Sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Budget
- 9 500 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 14 000 000 $US
- Montant brut mondial
- 14 000 000 $US
- Durée2 heures 2 minutes
- Couleur
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1