Good crime mystery

Rating: 8/10 (12 April 2012)

Argentina's entry won the best foreign film Oscar and it was the right choice. The dirty war of the 1970s is the backdrop to the story. Government sponsored terrorism resulted in much suffering and numerous deaths of innocent people.
A retired federal agent named Benjamin Esposito is writing a novel based on a criminal case that his office investigated years earlier. He visits a former employee who is now a judge, Irene Menendez, and they dig further into the old rape murder crime. Liliana Coloto was attacked in her home and after her death Esposito vows to catch the killer in a promise to her husband. Two innocent men who were working nearby are beaten by police into confessing. Esposito has them released and when he checks Coloto's house he notices photographs of a man staring at her. He is identified as Isodoro Gomez and letters he has written to Liliana are found at his mother house but because the search was illegal, the case is thrown out.
Esposito and Menedez continue in their quest for the truth and finally find the widower still grieving after twenty five years. He has never recovered from his wife's early demise. This leads to a very interesting conclusion which worked for me.