This year’s winner for best foreign film was Secret In Their Eyes, written and directed by Argentinian Juan Jose Campanella. We had the pleasure of seeing this movie at the Angelika Theater in Plano.
This film is a complex, multi-layered thriller that requires thinking and concentration. There are several stories brilliantly intertwined and the acting is superb.
Ricardo Darin plays Federal Agent Benjamin Esposito who has been haunted by a closed murder case for 20 years. Certain that the real murderer has escaped without justice, Benjamin proceeds to revisit the case and step back in time to seek closure in other areas too. An unfulfilled romantic connection with his then department chief Irene played by Soledad Villamil has haunted him and as he traces steps he took twenty years ago, is finally able to close the door on not only the murder, but the lost love as well.
The music is wonderful. The story line is fast paced and clever. The sequencing of scenes between twenty years will keep you glued to the story and fully engaged in its unexpected ending.
We loved this film and rated it 4 to 5 out of 5.
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