Tiempos Circulares is the cryptic title of the film and “Nuestra venganza es ser felices” (“Our revenge is to be happy”) the accompanying message but the latter is also slightly meretricious – unlike most films, there is no happy ending (or end) because there is no happy beginning.
Andrés Dunayevich’s film tells through the prism of two pairs of brothers the story of H.I.J.O.S (Hijos e Hijas por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio), a grouping with the common denominator of being left orphans at an early age when their parents joined the thousands disappeared by the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, as opposed to the victims of concentration camp baby-snatching adopted elsewhere.
A pain which runs too deep and underlies the film for all the gallant attempts to claim the “revenge” of happinesss although it is to the credit of all dictatorship victims that they
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