The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

This Argentinian thriller won the Best Foreign Film Oscar at the 2010 Academy Awards. It follows the interweaving personal lives of a team of state prosecutors on a 25-year-spanning manhunt.

"Recently retired Benjamin (Ricardo Darin), a former criminal-court employee, has decided to write a novel based on a rape and murder that occurred 20 years ago - a crime he believes has never been solved. He shares his intentions with judge Irene (Soledad Villamil), for whom he has long carried a secret torch and who - for reasons which soon become clear - is unsure about the idea... Flashbacks set just before the late ’70s arrival of the military junta show an Argentina already in the grip of judicial corruption. The dead woman was the young wife of Morales (Pablo Rago); the two immigrant workers arrested for the crime have clearly been beaten into confessing. Roused to action, and aided by his drunken barfly colleague Sandoval (Argentinean comedian Guillermo Francella), Benjamin sets about identifying the real perpertrator, their clumsiness generating some wonderful comic business along the way." (Variety).

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