BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – 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 Thatcher’s Britain and Argentina fought a brief and bloody war over 30 years ago. In the movie, Thatcher is shown ordering Britain’s 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, she’s 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 Thursday’s review.
Others praised Streep’s 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.
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