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Summary Argentine critics panned Thatcher movie during its premiere in Buenos Aires.
Meryl Streep may have been nominated for an Oscar for her portrayal of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, but Argentine critics panned the film during its premiere in Buenos Aires on Thursday.The film opened in Argentine theaters amid a furor over the Falkland Islands, which Thatchers Britain and Argentina fought a brief and bloody war over 30 years ago. In the movie, Thatcher is shown ordering Britains military to sink the Argentine warship Belgrano, which killed 323 Argentine sailors and remains controversial because the ship was considered to be outside the war zone.She also dismisses the entreaties of the American ambassador to settle the dispute peacefully, suggesting that as a woman, shes had to go to war every day to maintain her hold on power.Reducing the war to a question of feminism is absurd, to say the least, the daily Clarin wrote in Thursdays review.Others praised Streeps acting, but panned the script as mediocre.A character so controversial for her own citizens, the citizens of the world and especially for Argentines, Thatcher deserves a better movie, huffed La Nacion.Buenos Aires and London have escalated a war of words ahead of the anniversary of Argentinas ill-fated invasion of the islands on April 2, 1982. More than 900 soldiers and sailors were killed by the time Britain seized them back.
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