| Mataharis | |
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| Directed by | Icíar Bollaín |
| Produced by | Simón de Santiago |
| Written by | Icíar Bollaín Tatiana Rodríguez |
| Starring | Najwa Nimri María Vázquez Nuria González Diego Marín, Tristán Ulloa |
| Music by | Lucio Godoy |
| Cinematography | Kiko de la Rica |
| Editing by | Angel Hernández Zoido |
| Release date(s) | September 20, 2007 |
| Running time | 1h 40 min |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | €2,500,000 |
Mataharis is a 2007 Spanish drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín. It stars Najwa Nimri, Tristán Ulloa, María Vázquez and Nuria González. The plot follows the lives of three female detectives who investigate the secrets of others, but end up uncovering their own families' lies, and truths they would prefer to ignore.
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Inés, Eva and Carmen, three women of different generations, work as private detectives for an investigation agency run by Valbuena, their male chauvinist boss. Inés, the youngest and more ambitious of the three is assigned to work undercover as a factory employee to spy on the activities of its union leaders. However, her investigation brings her face to face with a difficult emotional and ethical decision. She wants to get higher up in the agency with this, the agency’s most important case, but she falls in love with Manuel, one of the key members she is investigating. Her professional ethics and her amorous feelings for Manuel turn her life into turmoil not knowing what to do.
Eva, has just returned to work at the detective agency after having had her second child. She is assigned to a rather mundane case of tracking down an old man's first love. Eva finds juggling her responsibilities very hard and her controlling character does not make it any easier: she never lets her husband Iñaki do any work but then resents him for not doing anything. When a mysterious woman called Marta appears in Iñaki’s life, Eva starts an investigation into her spouse’s secret life stumbling upon the possibility that her husband may not only be having an affair but leading a double life with another wife and family. She follows him from Madrid to Saragosa where she quickly finds what he her husband has been hiding. He have had a son born from a previous relationship before his marriage and now has become a willing participant in the life of a child, previously ignored.
Carmen, the oldest and most experienced of the three detectives, is on a routine investigation of the business partner and wife of Sergio, a photographer whose wife is having an affair with his business partner and close friend. Carmen sympathizes with Sergio's marital collapse not seeming to notice the dire straits of her own marriage.
Mataharis is available in Region 2 DVD in Spanish with English subtitles.
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