The Secret in Their Eyes won Best Foreign Film Academy Award for 2009. But it wasn't released at all in the United States until this year, so it counts as a 2010 film. It's also, quite simply, one of the best movies of the year. It's gorgeous, sad, and intriguing, spanning the years 1974-2000. The movie is about a rape, and looking for the culprit. But everyone is uncooperative. The police and even the judges have terrible grudges, and justice is but an afterthought to them. But Esposito (the main character) is a determined man. He works with his friend (a female judge) and the husband of the raped and murdered woman. For years they search and search, and the whole thing plays like a damn good mystery. The way that information is seeped out to us through the camera is wondrous, and it's constantly engaging. Don't let the idea that it's an Argentinean movie in Spanish dismay you, for the way the spanish is spoken makes some scenes sound less corny, and rather, completely engrossing and languid. I think the film is about assumptions and the span of life. In the end, each character has fully defined themselves based upon a rape and murder twenty five years ago. It's great.
The Secret in Their Eyes: ★★★★
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