Mataharis

Mataharis
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.

Plot

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.

Cast

• Najwa Nimri - Eva
• Maria Vázquez- Inés
• Nuria González - Carmen
• Diego Marín - Manuel
• Tristán Ulloa - Iñaki
• Fernando Cayo – Valbuena
• Antonio de La Torre - Sergio
• Adolfo Fernández – Alberto

DVD release

Mataharis is available in Region 2 DVD in Spanish with English subtitles.

External links

• Mataharis at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.sogecine-sogepaq.com/mataharis/
• http://www.cinefilo.es/cine-mataharis-6506.html

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