Dir: Juan José Campanella Argentina 2009 129mins Cert (UK)18
Cast: Carla Quevedo, Guillermo Francella, Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil

Winner of the Best Foreign Picture prize at last year’s Oscars, Campanella’s noirish portrayal of obsession is intriguing and shocking as it traces an unsolved crime of the 1970s through the eyes of an aged prosecutor.

He is now writing a novel about it as a distraction from his own life of disappointments and lost opportunities. But his research takes him back to the people with whom he worked, and reveals how his earlier actions poisoned his career and his life.

The charismatic Ricardo Darín makes a seductively melancholy and unexpectedly gallant hero. Exciting camera work and some unexpected twists in the plot keep the audience on its toes.