The Honorary Consul [DVD]

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They intend to ransom the ambassador for the release of political prisoners in Paraguay, including Plarr's father.

Nonetheless, he finds himself obsessed by Clara and seduces her with a pair of highly decorative sunglasses. Starring: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo, Joaquim de Almeida, A Martinez, Stephanie Cotsirilos, Domingo Ambriz, Geoffrey Palmer, Jorge Russek, Erika Carlsson, George Belanger. The Honorary Consul is a much more complicated, mysterious work than one might suspect from this rather literal if quite faithful condensation. The staff of Variety wrote that "strong talents on both sides of the camera haven’t managed to breathe life into this intricate tale of emotional and political betrayal and [the] result is a steady dose of tedium. Read all During the Dirty War, a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces.The kidnappers' first attempt to intercept the cars fails when they get held up by a military convoy. Army paratroopers surround the hut while the failed priest, Rivas, conducts a makeshift mass inside with the rain coming down. Eduardo Plarr is an unmarried medical doctor of English descent who, as a boy, fled to Buenos Aires with his Paraguayan mother to escape the political turmoil of Paraguay. The action is based upon a book by Graham Greene, a morality tale in which Greene shows how a seemingly mild injustice leads to catastrophic consequences for an apparently innocent man.

Plarr makes the acquaintance of the dissolute and heavy-drinking Charley Fortnum, the honorary British consul. Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote of "the grossly meaningless title that has been attached—like a bathtub to a car—to the screen adaptation of The Honorary Consul, Mr.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Although I have never read the novel or indeed any of Graham Greene's other novels, I thought The Honorary Consul was quite entertaining a story despite not having seen the film before. Fortnum spends much of his time, as he faces up to his impending death, sentimentalizing about Clara and remembering the fearsome figure of his father. All of this comes together to create problems when he is asked to help revolutionaries kidnap a diplomat.

When the police deadline is about to expire, Plarr goes out to talk with them, with Leon shooting him in his leg. He accepts the fact that he is not the father of the baby, and even suggests naming the child Eduardo, after Plarr.During a dirty war a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. Rivas and Aquino take Plarr to a squalid hut in a shanty town while bargaining with the authorities.