Movie #15 - El Secreto de sus ojos (2009)

Saw it last friday. The Secret in their eyes (2009) won the oscar for best picture in a foreign language in this last edition of the oscars. It's from Argentina and includes several well know argentinian actors and actresses. I was very impressed by the movie. As always when a movie has good acting employed to create good characters for me that's more than half a movie. That is definitely true in this case. The dialogues are amazing and are impecably acted upon by a group of actors that make the characters seem to exist in real life. But it's not just that. The storyline is very good and the pace is amazingly taken care of. And here may lie for me the only big flaw of the movie. I felt (and this was something shared by the other people who saw the movie with me) that I was being too guided. I guess there could be something that should be left out to make the movie more subtle and to let the viewer take part in the interpretation of the scenes. It feels like you're being told exactly what to feel in each given moment and that everything is very well explained (for example, by using repetition of past dialogues in the background sound). But this flaw was not enought to impede my impression of the movie has a great one that opened my eyes for Argentinian cinema. Definitely a very good movie that deals with a very strong story in a serious way but mingled with great humour (I burst out laughing several times mostly because of the character Pablo Sandoval incredibly interpreted by the famous argentinian comedian Guillermo Francella). Enjoy.