the many facets of a great movie

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2011)

Benjamin Esposito is a legal counselor who, together with his assistant Sandoval and his superior Irene Menéndez-Hasting, works hard to investigate the murder of a young lady. The investigation becomes complicated when a Romano, a rival legal counselor, works against them. Jose Luis Campanella does a tremendous job of intertwining a love story between the two main characters, together with a crime thriller. As a means of telling the story, the director switches from past to present and present to past, each time revealing a new aspect of each storyline. Throughout the movie it is easy to focus on the crime thriller storyline and think that it is the only thing going on. However, through subtle looks in the eyes of the main characters we are able to see that there is love brewing up in them and that this will become a main theme in no time. The film is filled with cinematographic beauty and technique and certainly proves itself to be one of the best movies ever made in the history of Argentina.