The first half of this Argentinian foreign-language film Oscar winner is a reasonably conventional mystery-thriller, with a retiring court investigator (Ricardo Darín) revisiting a murder case from decades earlier that he can’t let go of. (American or British viewers will notice that the civil law legal system used in Latin America and much of Europe works differently than the common law system that evolved in England and its former colonies.) The second half, when the mystery seems to have been solved, delves into the personal, the political, and the nature of justice. The climactic scene is far more haunting than the usual revenge thriller that it’s set up to be.
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viewed 5/27/10 at Ritz 5 and reviewed 6/3/10
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