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sophinisba) wrote2010-05-05 10:22 pm
sophinisba) wrote2010-05-05 10:22 pm
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El secreto de sus ojos
El secreto de sus ojos/The Secret in Their Eyes is excellent, if you like a good crime thriller. Ricardo Darín plays a retired man who's still trying to figure out a rape and murder case he worked on 25 years earlier. There's also a romance between him and his colleague/former boss, played by Soledad Villamil, who is great.
For the first hour or so I was following along, thinking, Okay, this is a competent police procedural, the actors are good...but seriously? How did it get the Oscar for best foreign language film? So many other Argentine movies I've seen have been better than this (but they never drew the kind of crowds we saw at our little suburban theater Saturday night!). The movie's over two hours long though and just keeps building as it goes on, lots of suspense and unexpected plot twists, and a political dimension that gets more and more interesting as it goes on. My parents and I all ended up saying we'd like to see it again because it was so complex and there were parts we'd like to think about and try to understand better. Not that it was hard to follow, just that there was a lot more going on than we realized at first.
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claudia603, there was a great interrogation scene! I thought of you!
Beware, gentle viewers, there's a graphic rape scene in this movie (which I was not expecting)! Mostly just short clips of it but the first instance really comes out of nowhere.
My parents and I had been watching an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit before we went out to the theater, and on the way home one of us made some comparison or other between the movie and SVU, and then we all quickly said, well, of course we really shouldn't compare them, this is a whole other level of quality and complexity...and then we looked up the director, Juan José Campanella, and found out he's directed a bunch of episodes of SVU! He also directed this week's episode of House and some others and, you know, this week's House was fine but nothing out of the ordinary. It's, I don't know, maybe a tiny bit sad but also sort of neat to think of this guy with such a huge talent and know he's working regularly and turning out good (but not amazing) quality TV when he's not making movies.
I've seen two other movies of his which he also wrote and which also starred Ricardo Darín: El hijo de la novia, which was sentimental but also lovely, and Luna de Avellaneda, which was a little too sentimental and didn't have enough story for my taste.
For the first hour or so I was following along, thinking, Okay, this is a competent police procedural, the actors are good...but seriously? How did it get the Oscar for best foreign language film? So many other Argentine movies I've seen have been better than this (but they never drew the kind of crowds we saw at our little suburban theater Saturday night!). The movie's over two hours long though and just keeps building as it goes on, lots of suspense and unexpected plot twists, and a political dimension that gets more and more interesting as it goes on. My parents and I all ended up saying we'd like to see it again because it was so complex and there were parts we'd like to think about and try to understand better. Not that it was hard to follow, just that there was a lot more going on than we realized at first.
claudia603, there was a great interrogation scene! I thought of you!Beware, gentle viewers, there's a graphic rape scene in this movie (which I was not expecting)! Mostly just short clips of it but the first instance really comes out of nowhere.
My parents and I had been watching an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit before we went out to the theater, and on the way home one of us made some comparison or other between the movie and SVU, and then we all quickly said, well, of course we really shouldn't compare them, this is a whole other level of quality and complexity...and then we looked up the director, Juan José Campanella, and found out he's directed a bunch of episodes of SVU! He also directed this week's episode of House and some others and, you know, this week's House was fine but nothing out of the ordinary. It's, I don't know, maybe a tiny bit sad but also sort of neat to think of this guy with such a huge talent and know he's working regularly and turning out good (but not amazing) quality TV when he's not making movies.
I've seen two other movies of his which he also wrote and which also starred Ricardo Darín: El hijo de la novia, which was sentimental but also lovely, and Luna de Avellaneda, which was a little too sentimental and didn't have enough story for my taste.
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