Karry
Best movie of this year hands down!
Beystiman
It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Hadrina
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Anssi Vartiainen
A retired Argentinian federal agent is trying to write a book about a past case of his and in doing so hoping to finally come to terms with it. The case concerns a murdered young woman and all the legal hoops they had to jump through in pursuing a conviction and all the corruption that stood in their way.Ricardo Darín plays the lead role here. He was also my favourite in another Argentinian film, Wild Tales, which I really enjoyed, and he's also my favourite in this film. Something about his whole being is just perfect to convey the frustration and sadness his character has to go through in fighting the windmills that are the Argentinian government and its legal system.As for the story, it was competent and very much enjoyable, but I also felt that it lacked that certain something. The end twist I could see coming miles away and the rest of the events, while competently filmed and certainly professionally made all around, were not what I'd call original.Not to say that originality is the end and all of film making - although it usually doesn't hurt. You can tell a classic tale and your film will be a classic as well, if you just tell it well enough. But here I didn't find that personal touch that I'm looking for.Still, the film is very good. If you're looking for a crime film with a film-noir feel and twist, you should definitely keep this one in mind.
duaneincali
I am raised in u.s. but lived in c. america and mexico; so i see a lot of spanish and english movies. often times movies i like that i see in l. america really would not be appreciated by most americanos. However this move is really something all would enjoy. the acting and writing is so amazing. this would be a good movie for those americans who shy away from foreign flicks. I also appreciated the subtle use of spanish and various dialects and even prejudices. this was a simply outstanding film. and kudos to ms quevedo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1also, it was refreshing for a 'thriller' to have an ending i had not guessed.
shayzoom
Oscar Best Foreign Languages nominees and winners must never be missed; they are mostly spectacular gems who screenplays deserve place in the Library of Congress. This Law & Order :Argentina seeming Gone Baby Gone reminding thriller hits you with an intense and powerful narrative culminating into what will only induce a double whammy; something which no one sees it coming! That quote - "The brevity or prolonging the life of a human being depends primarily on the flow of pain that person is forced to endure." by the author Eduardo Sacheri (y)
sahachiranjit32
Benjamin Esposito is a retired criminal investigator struggle to write a novel about-"THE MORALES CASE" that is A bank officers wife brutally raped and murdered by a unknown man. The story flashbacks 25 years to source when Benjamin first met Irene, educated at Cornell's law school, have just arrived at the office. Benjamin and his partner Pablo investigated the Morales case . Benjamin visit victim's husband house, he found some clue from childhood photos of victim (Lilliana Colloto) about the man who watch her like an eagle eye. Isidoro Gomez, is finally caught in a stadium, whose passion is to watch soccer games. At first he disapproved all which has been filed to him. At instant Irene saw he is lustfully gazing at her . Irene try to taunt him and finally arrested him. But somehow government released him. After 25 years later Benjamin revisited the case and try to know what happens to Isidoro , who has been missing since 25 years . H e visit Morales house and try to know the answer "how did you live life without Lilliana? How did you live life full of nothing? How did you do it?"This film is about dirty politics, love which is never courage to confess, Emptiness, Rejuvenation, and the eyes which is never lied.