“Ariel: Back to Buenos Aries” (2023): 

What is Family?

To most, Family is bond by blood. However, this is scarcely a sole definition.

Adoption. Foster care. Rescuing from an intolerable situation and taking into one’s home. These relationships and more also represent family to so many of us.

The new indie film “Ariel: Back to Buenos Aries” explores the meaning of family in a particularly close to the bone manner. Writer and Director Alison Murray has brilliantly crafted a story graced with many layers. Among them, these...

*The gnawing, driving need to know where we come from.

*Embracing a new reality, while at the same time not letting go completely of that which preceded it.

*Haunting transgressions of the past are rarely ever buried for all-time.

*The unconscionable atrocities perpetrated against the Argentinian people from the mid 1970s through the early 80s, primarily by order of ruthless dictatorial President Jorge Rafael Videla.

*The sensuous and scintillating romance and arresting healing power of Argentina’s native dance, the Tango. (Murray is a championship performer of this profoundly soulful art.)

*Per this story’s horrific revelations, bitter shame upon the American Ford Motor Company.

“Ariel: Back to Buenos Aries” rents now on amazon Prime Video, YouTube and Apple TV among several other streaming platforms.