Secretos y miradas: la violencia de la historia entre el texto y la pantalla

Abstract

This article studies the dissymmetrical repercussions of two films from Argentinean cinema released in 2009 and 2010 and based on novels. On the one hand, El secreto de sus ojos, winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. On the other hand, Ciencias morales, an adaptation of the novel that won the 2007 Herralde Prize. The paper deals with the relationship between story and national history, evaluates the changes from books to films and proposes an explanation for the different receptions obtained from public and critics of so closed topics.