Today the Argentine and Spanish co-production opens The Secret in Their Eyes, directed by Juan José Campanella and actor Ricardo Darín, who are succeeding in repeating the success of their previous film together, El hijo de la novia.
The Secret in Their Eyes It has been undisputed No. 1 in Argentina for six consecutive weeks and with a figure of five million euros it has become the highest grossing Argentine film in its country for many years.
This film is in the official section of the San Sebastian Festival and is one of the favorites to win the Golden Shell and the best actor award for Ricardo Darín.
This free publicity has made the distributor of the film in Spain, Altafilms, put it on the billboards with 200 copies without spending a penny on television advertising. Hopefully the bet goes well and achieves a box office as good as in Argentina.
The synopsis of The Secret of His Eyes is as follows:
It is the end of the 90's. Benjamín Espósito (Darín), secretary of a Court of Instruction of the City of Buenos Aires, is about to retire and decides to write a novel based on a case that moved him thirty years before, of the which was witness and protagonist. His obsession with the brutal murder that occurred in 1975 leads him to relive those years, bringing to the present not only the violence of the crime and its perpetrator, but also a deep love story with his co-worker, whom he has fervently desired and loved. and in silence for years. The novel that Espósito writes takes us through the 70s, when Argentina lived through turbulent times, the air was rarefied and nothing was necessarily what it seemed to be. Crime, love, justice, politics and revenge are confused and intermingled in the lives of the characters. A film that intertwines moral dilemmas around justice and punishment, the theme of the writing process, empathy and hinted love.