The Clan Quotes

  • Arquímedes Puccio: I'm innocent.

  • [upon kidnapping Ricardo Manoukian]

    Arquímedes Puccio: [to Alex, who is seen breathing heavily] Are you ok?

    [Alex doesn't answer; he gives a short glance to his father and keeps breathing heavily]

    Arquímedes Puccio: Alex?

    Alejandro Puccio: I'm ok, dad.

  • Mónica: [to Alex, after both are taken into custody] Sweetheart, what's happening? Alex!

  • Arquímedes Puccio: Good morning.

    Secretario Comodoro: Morning.

    Arquímedes Puccio: I need to see the Commodore.

    Secretario Comodoro: You already told me that on the phone and I've already explained it to you.

    Arquímedes Puccio: That's why I'm here. I'm not happy with your explanation.

    Secretario Comodoro: Listen, Puccio. I don't have time for this. Can't you see it?

    Arquímedes Puccio: Am I not making myself clear? I want... to see the Commodore.

    Secretario Comodoro: Things aren't looking too good. You'd do well to stay under the radar for a bit. This goverment is fucking it up to the point that no one can tell what'll happen next. Do as I say. Lay Low. I'll show you the way out.

    Arquímedes Puccio: Lay Low?

    Secretario Comodoro: This way, Arquimedes.

    Arquímedes Puccio: No, no. I know my way out.

  • [first lines]

    Raul Alfonsín: [archive footage; giving a speech] Mr. President of the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, Dr. Ernesto Sábato. Ladies, gentlemen... I believe that what you've done already has a place in our country's history. It's a fundamental contribution, so, moving forward we Argentines can certainly know, at the very least, the path we must never take, in the future. So that hate, so that violence, may never again disturb, unsettle, and degrad our Argentine society.

Extended Reading
  • Effie 2022-03-21 09:03:10

    At first glance, it feels a bit bland, but the feeling of hiding in the crowd when kidnapping classmates is very strange. I feel that the director should focus on objectively narrating that absurd history, but wouldn’t it be better if he focused on the protagonist’s heart? What a strange thing in South America.

  • Hester 2022-02-21 08:02:29

    Listening to rock and roll doing math problems in the screams, holding school faculty meetings between prison meals, rugby stars chatting and sending teammates into the trunk of the car... Before and after the Argentine dictatorship ended, the secret police was a harmonious family routine that made extra money. Brutal burst, calmly. "I give you everything!" The terror of centralized power and the awareness of family patriarchy are seamlessly combined, wonderful