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Film of the Week - Feb. 2

The secret of his eyes of Juan José Campanella

Synopsis

Benjamin, a former employee of the Ministry of Public Buenos Aires, he retired to write a novel. As a subject has chosen the unsolved murder of a young woman occurred just months before the start of the military dictatorship of Videla. Between past and present, memories of the 70s and love for a colleague, Benjamin tries to unravel the mystery, and so of his life.



The secret of his eyes, the film Argentine winner of last year 's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (in spite of such masterpieces as The White Ribbon and The Prophet, film closure of the nucleus), is a work by special charm. It is a traditional story from the plant, with flashbacks and events in the present tense influenced by past ones, and inspired a popular pace, according to its director, the Italian cinema and American cinema of the 70s.

Maybe that's why "classic" components which differs from the films of other directors of the new generation, which belongs to the same Campanella, the various Burman, Trapero Martel who collect and participation in festivals count, but they are rarely distributed outside of their country. As in the Italian cinema of the times of Gassman and Manfredi, then Campanella has a fondness for big players, a kind of acting class and seductive: acting, so to speak, that can provide an interpreter as Darín Ricardo, who is one of the most star in Argentina and that of your eyes Secret embodies the figure of a little 'sweet and a bit' tragedy of a man in this tired, sometimes desperate, that sets in motion a mechanism to avoid going down slope, with its qualities of humanity and the light that flashed in his eyes.

Beyond all these elements that make the film work and sound perfectly crafted, halfway between the auteur and entertaining thriller, what characterizes it most is the reference to the recent history of Argentina, a position a tragedy and uncertainty that make it a perfect subject, however painful, to the cinema. The secret of his eyes enters the living flesh of the company with issues such as corruption, the feeling of revenge and power, filtering them in the manner of classic cinema through a love story whose importance in the plot comes and goes depending on the moment.


This is because the various floors of the story, between the fiction of the novel that the protagonist writes and real facts that you inspired in part by the story of the investigation and, precisely, the love story between the memories of thirty years elapsed between dictatorships and democratic transformations painful, meet and merge with the investigation and section tribunalesca that seems to prevail. Whether this has to do with the development of memory that involved the entire Latin American continent, Argentina so striking for the processes to those responsible for genocide, it seems clear to us, but the director is an issue which is not party intentionally writing the screenplay from the book of Eduard Sacher his usual co-writer. Without revealing the plot, one could say that the structure of the film has to do with the complex mechanism of cancellation of the past happened in the country and the vigilant prosecution of those responsible and not a single murder. It has to do with the moral rigor of a country through its protagonist feel not to have lost dignity and who tried to rise again after the dictatorship and the collapse of the economy.


If once, in fact, the worst enemy of memory was the time, now is the avalanche of information that sometimes confuses and mixes everything into an eternal present. On this ground, on which the film still has many cards to play, especially in countries with memory have an account, The secret of your eyes is a perfect example of this work he uses with skill genres (police and melodrama in particular) to dig into the memory.

to continue to live because it is easier to avoid thinking about the past. There seems to value more than the film that is now proceeding romantic, now full of suspense, always with interpreters is available to fill the screen with their presence.