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The Invisible Eye

La mirada invisible

Spain, France, Argentina

2010

97 Min
Color
1.85:1
Spanish
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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DIR Diego Lerman

PROD Nicolás Avruj, Rodolfo Cova

SCR Diego Lerman, María Meira

DP Álvaro Gutiérrez

CAST Julieta Zylberberg, Omar Núñez, Marta Lubos, Gaby Ferrero

ED Alberto Ponce

PROD DES Yamila Fontán

MUSIC José Villalobos

SOUND Leandro de Loredo

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), San Sebastián (Horizontes Latinos), São Paulo (International Perspective), !F Istanbul (Bonus Tracks)

Synopsis

Buenos Aires, March 1982. On the streets of the Argentinean capital, people are challenging the military dictatorship.

Marita is a supervisor at the Colegio Nacional in Buenos Aires, the establishment that trains the country’s future elite. She is 23 and wants to do things right. Mr Biasutto, the head supervisor, immediately sees in her the zealous employee that he has been waiting for and teaches her to become the vigilant eye attentive to everything but that avoids attracting the attention of others: the invisible eye.

Marita then throws herself into the relentless surveillance of this tiny, closed world, imagining, detecting, pursuing… –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

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AdamantCocoon

11Aug12

Seen it twice. Zylberberg anchors the film but it's Osmar Núñez as Mr. Biasutto who provides the frisson. It's frustrating that the rest of The Invisible Eye is stuffy.

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Michael Harbour

8Jan12

The movie does not live up to Julieta Zylberberg's entrancing performance. It's not a bad movie, really, it just keeps steering away from any direction that might offer genuine surprises.

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Matt Richards

22Oct11

Set within an elite high school during 1982, the stifling, repression and blind following of orders become a microcosm for the lager problems of the country at that time. Using Innocence and sexual awakening to explore the notion that gross power corrupts all works well enough but takes so very long to get there. Beautifully shot and scored with a captivating performance from the lead Marita. 3 stars

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