"The Secret In Their Eyes"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Our 2009 retrospective is almost over. For our second-to-last review, we're taking a look at the year's Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, "The Secret In Their Eyes" starring Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino, and Guillermo Francella. Directed, produced, and edited by Juan José Campanella and adapted from Eduardo Sacheri's novel "La pregunta de sus ojos," the film follows judiciary agents Benjamín Espósito and Irene Hastings as they investigate a murder in 1970s Argentina, set against the nation's turbulent political and social climate. Employing a nonlinear narrative and featuring a celebrated five-minute continuous stadium shot, it marked Campanella's fourth collaboration with Darín and earned critical acclaim for its screenplay, performances, and direction, grossing over $34 million worldwide and winning numerous awards, including the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. How does the film hold up today? Please join Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, and me as we discuss the performances, direction, writing, editing, its awards season run, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. You can vote now on the winners of the 2009 NBP Film Community Awards here until August 16th, 2025. We appreciate your support and hope you enjoy our review! Thank you! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of the secret in their eyes.
0:07.1	Your Alteza.
0:09.1	What surprise?
0:14.5	I want to write about the cause of Morales.
0:17.9	And what do you know about writing, you?
0:22.4	In reality,
0:23.1	never more
0:23.7	about that?
0:24.4	Why,
0:24.6	never more
0:25.3	about that?
0:29.0	So,
0:31.5	don't know.
0:32.1	You know what
0:33.0	in the justice,
0:33.6	you know,
0:34.7	my
0:36.5	life entire
0:37.0	was
0:37.2	to look to the way is my jurisdiction. I declare incompetent. All right, everybody, you were just looking
0:37.6	to the end up front.
0:38.8	Back,
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