Mataharis

Spain

2007

100 Min

Color

1.85:1

Spanish

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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EXEC Santiago García de Leániz

SCR Icíar Bollaín, Tatiana Rodríguez, Pelayo Gutiérrez

CAST Najwa Nimri, Tristán Ulloa, Fernando Cayo, María Vázquez, Diego Martín, Nuria González, Antonio de la Torre, Manuel Morón, Adolfo Fernández, Mabel Rivera

MUSIC Lucio Godoy

London (Cinema Europa), San Sebastián (Competition), San Francisco (World Cinema)

Synopsis

Private detective Inés infiltrates the employees at a multinational corporation. Thanks to the collaboration of Manuel, she gets to the heart of company intrigues. But her investigation brings her face to face with a difficult emotional and ethical decision. Eva, just back from maternity leave, is juggling work and family obligations when she discovers that her partner Iñaki is hiding something fundamental to their future as a couple. Carmen, the most experienced of the three, observes and tapes Sergio’s marital collapse but can’t see her own marriage is dead. While working at the detective agency run by Valbuena, these three surveillance specialists often invade others’ privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. All three will have to cross the thin line dividing public and private matters, bringing their own issues to light in order to solve more than just their professional cases. —IMDb

Director

Icíar Bollaín

Born in Madrid in 1967, Iciar Bollain has worked as leading actress in selected films like El sur (1983) by ‘Victor Erice’ , Malaventura (1988) by ‘Manuél Gutiérrez Aragón’ , Un paraguas para tres (1992) by Felipe Vega, Land and Freedom (1995) by Ken Loach, Leo (2000) by ‘Jose Luis Borau’, (Best Actress nomination Goya Spanish Academy Awards)Nos miran (2002), or La noche del hermano (2005).
She is a partner of film company Producciones La Iguana S.L. , writing and directing since then both documentaries and fiction films. In 1995 she wrote and directed her feature film debut, Hola, ¿estás sola? (1995) awarded among others with Best New Director and Audience Award in Valladolid International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Directorial Debut by the Spanish Film Academy. The film became one of Spain’s 1996 box office hits. Flores de otro mundo (1999) co-written with award winning novelist Julio Llamazares, was her second feature film and was awarded at Cannes Film Festival… read more