Wednesday April 23rd 2014
USA 2012  120 minutes
Director: Ben Affleck
Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin

This Oscar-winning film is a dramatised account of a real - if highly improbable - event in Tehran  during the 1980 hostage crisis. When six American diplomats seek sanctuary in the Canadian embassy the CIA launches a dangerous operation to rescue them by creating a bogus film company, apparently in the country to make ‘Argo’, a science-fiction film. What follows seems more like fiction than fact, and indeed the Iranian government has complained that the film gives a very one-sided view of events. Whilst this is probably true, it makes for a gripping and exciting tale to round off our season.
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