Thursday, February 17, 2011
IT'S COMPLICATED updated 5pm pst
Today's film was Argentinian Juan José Campanella's
The Secret in Their Eyes (2010)
an Oscar nominee for foreign film.
What is complicated is the relationship at the heart of this thriller which spans 25 years of case work.
The device is memory and scenes are interspersed as a retired investigator sifts through the past to write a book and finds himself back at the starting point but this time with a clue. Or good luck.
The investigator is Ricardo Darín who I have seen before in several films. Good movies in Argentina. The woman in his life is Soledad Villamil. Solid. Together they are amazing.
All the actors in this are superb. Even the villains. There are many vignettes that sparkle.
The cinematography in this film is amazing. There is a scene at a soccer game that I had to watch twice and then again after the film was done. Many others.
What is complicated is the relationship but also the story as most of this happens under the regime of the Peron government. Justice is getting harder to find.
I liked this very much. I would be happy to see it again some time. That makes it a 4 out of Netflix5.
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