The Honorary Consul [DVD]

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His English father remained in Paraguay as a political rebel and, aside from a single hand-delivered letter, they never hear from him again. When Plarr moves to Corrientes, a quiet, subtropical backwater, he meets the two other English inhabitants: Humphries, a bitter elderly English teacher; and Charles Fortnum, the unimportant British honorary consul, a divorced, self-pitying alcoholic who abuses his position for gain. Read all During the Dirty War, a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum (Michael Caine), a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep revolution from occurring.

This is chiefly because the movie does not do a satisfactory job of explaining who or what the group is fighting against.He accepts the fact that he is not the father of the baby, and even suggests naming the child Eduardo, after Plarr. Visiting the town brothel with Saavedra, Plarr is attracted to a girl, Clara, but she is taken by another man.

Fortnum overhears Plarr telling Leon of his adultery with Clara and saying that he, not Fortnum, is the father of the child that Clara is expecting.During a dirty war a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. Fortnum asks Plarr to come to his house to attend to his wife, who is complaining of stomach cramps.