My favourite movie is an argentinian one, "El secreto de sus ojos", "the secret in their eyes", the name in english..
It was released in 2009, and i simply love it. For me it has it all, it´s a suspense but at the same time romantic and even politic story. The movie developes everything around a crime: a full in love man who loses his wife, and about the lawyer getting involved so deeply that his own life turned out to be absolutely changed and influenced by that homicide.
It also has great music and a bunch of the best argentinian actors, starting with Ricardo Darin, who has an extraordinary taste to pick his movies (i truly recommend watching "9 reinas" and "un cuento chino", they are great too) and Soledad Villamil, but also amazing performances for the secondary characters, like Guillermo Francella. He is mostly known in his country for being a great tv humorist, but in this movie his performance is absolutely incredible, it's like you forget it's Francella acting there because the character he plays is totally different from what you could' ve seeen from him before.
Well i think i also like it so much because i was living in Buenos Aires by the time it was on the cinemas, and i have great memories just walking to the cinema with friends, and the walk back, talking about how great the movie was.
The movie won the Oscar award for best foreign language film that year, so, even though in the last few years sometimes Oscars are not a great measure of how good a movie is, this time i totally agree..
Well Fran, you present an excellent review for this movie. I've watched it 3 o 4 times, and i love it, this is definitely a must. I've also watched "Un cuento chino" following darin's filmography and if you recommend "9 reinas" i think i'm gonna download it and watch it. See you in class, bye!
ResponderEliminarWhen i was in Buenos Aires two years ago, the family who received me also gave me a DVD of this movie as a gift... I lended it to one of my uncles and I haven't seen it yet :S
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