Chichester Cinema at New Park
Secret in their Eyes
- El Secreto de sus Ojos
The Oscar winning film from Agentina, a gripping police procedural thriller, finally comes to the UK.
Benjamín Esposito (Ricardo Darín) is a recently retired public prosecutor in Argentina. Now living alone and with a lot of time on his hands, he begins to write a novel, one that studies the two passions of his life: his romantic love for his former boss, Irene (Soledad Villamil), and a 20-year-old murder case that still eats at him.
"Passion" is a word that comes up a lot, as it is the driving force for everything the characters do in ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’. Passion is why one character drinks himself into a stupor every night, and why another rapes and kills a woman.
It's the central element that defines each of us, the thing we can't change about ourselves, good or bad. Based on a novel by Eduardo Sacheri, this is a police procedural refracted through hindsight.
Most of the movie is told via flashbacks, and thus subject to the tricks of memory and, possibly, the narrative alterations of a man trying to faction a fiction out of his own life story. When ‘The Secret in Their Eyes’ took the Best Foreign Language Oscar earlier this year, it was a bit of a surprise, expecting either ‘The White Ribbon’ or ‘A Prophet’, to win. Now you can decide if the Academy was right or wrong. (subtitles)
Argentina · 2009 · Juan Jose Campanella · 129min
