The Secret in Their Eyes, Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film

The Secret in Their Eyes, Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film

The Secret in Their Eyes, the gripping mystery romance that won this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar® and was Argentina’s most popular domestic film in three decades, arrives on Blu-ray and DVD September 21 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.  The critically lauded cast is headed by Ricardo Darin as a man obsessed with a murder case that’s gone unsolved for 30 years.  He’s joined by co-stars Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino and Guillermo Francella.  Juan José Campanella (Son of the Bride) directed the Sony Pictures Classic release.

The Secret in Their Eyes garnered 13 awards from the Argentinean Motion Picture Academy, including Best Film, as well as nine prestigious Argentinean Clarin Awards, including Best Film and Best Director. A consistent winner and crowd pleaser at international festivals, the film was especially honored in Spain, where it received multiple Goya Awards and nominations, including Best Foreign Language film,  as well as four CEC awards from Spain’s Cinema Writers Circle, for Best Actress (Villamil), Best Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Francella), plus four nominations, including Best Film.

Synopsis:
Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin (Ricardo Darin) decides to write a novel based on a 25-year-old unresolved rape and murder case which still haunts him. Benjamin shares his plans with Irene (Soledad Villamil), the beautiful judge and former colleague he has secretly been in love with for years. Benjamin’s initial involvement with the case is shown through flashbacks, following his efforts to identify the murderer. But as the mystery of the heinous crime continues to unfold in the present, his search for the truth will put him at the center of a judicial nightmare and will test the limits of a man seeking justice and personal fulfillment at last.

BD/DVD Bonus Features include:
w        Featurette: Behind the Scenes of The Secret in Their Eyes
w        Featurette: Casting The Secret in Their Eyes
w        Commentary with director Juan José Campanella

The Secret in Their Eyes will be available for $28.95 SRP for the DVD and $38.96 for the Blu-ray.