Sunday, June 6, 2010

The Secret in their Eyes

Last night, Michael and I took advantage of the empty inn and went to see a movie with some theater friends. We saw The Secret in their Eyes, an Argentinian film that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this year.

I'm still thinking about it this morning.

The movie takes place in two times--the present, and twenty years ago. In the present, a retired judicial employee is trying to write a novel about a rape-murder case. The flashbacks show the initial investigation.

The acting was excellent, and the aging of the actors completely believable.

I was worried it would be depressing (in my experience, Oscar-winning foreign films tend to be), but it wasn't.

It was, however, haunting.

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