Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the Argentine film by director Juan José Campanella tells the story of Benjamin (played by Ricardo Darín), a recently retired criminal court investigator who decides to write a novel based on a twenty-five year old unresolved rape and murder case, which still haunts him. Sharing his plans with Irene (Soledad Villamil), the beautiful judge and former colleague he has secretly been in love with for years, Benjamin’s initial involvement with the case is shown through flashbacks, as he sets out to identify the murderer. But Benjamin’s search for the truth will put him at the center of a judicial nightmare, as the mystery of the heinous crime continues to unfold in the present, testing the limits of a man seeking justice and personal fulfillment at last.
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES / EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS
A film by Juan José Campanella
(Argentina/Spain, 2009, 129 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
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