The Secrets in Their Eyes/ El secreto de sus ojos (2009) film review by Lukas Agelastos. Juan José Campanella's film is set in 1974. It is about a male legal counsellor (Ricardo Darín) and his female supervisor, a law clerk (Soledad Villamil), as they examine a rape and assassination case, while also following the protagonists 25 years later as they remember the case and uncover the concealed passion between them. While I usually make a point of discussing politics, there is too much of Argentine political backstory here about the aftermath of the 1976-83 military dictatorship, a time of ferocious political violence known as the Dirty War, which I am not sufficiently acquainted with and which has already been amply discussed elsewhere, such as David Hanley's 2016 essay in OffScreen . Also, according to The Guardian's Ben Bollig's 2010 article , for example, the film is an "attempt to cope with Argentina's past of unsolved crime during the dictators