Mataharis (2007)

Mataharis: Directed by Icíar Bollaín. With Najwa Nimri, Tristán Ulloa, María Vázquez, Diego Martín. 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.

“This is a great movie about three women who worked for a detective agency. While hired/contracted/spied on those clientsu0026#39; appointed targets, we, the viewers, have become the spies checking on their own personal lives, their dying and endangered marriage, the relationship between the detective and the target, the numbness of the husbands and wives, the secret dilemma between them. Itu0026#39;s so subtle yet so heart broken. The relationships of the two married couples are so heartfelt miserable, making viewers like us to look at our own relationship. The movie didnu0026#39;t show you any dramatic or dangerous plot and itu0026#39;s quite predictable, but the screenplay, the directing, the acting, the sound track… are all top notched. This is a great movie.”