One of the pleasures to be found in The Secret in Their Eyes is its unusually rich and expressive English subtitles. Director Juan José Campanella, who speaks both Spanish and English fluently, says he made a decision “to do it in American English, not a neutral English.” Most foreign-language films are subtitled so as to be understood in Johannesburg, Canberra, Ottawa and Birmingham (England and Alabama). Campanella told the film’s translator, Tony Gray, to approach the subtitles as though he were writing dialogue for a David Mamet film.

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