Secret in Their Eyes Character Posters
Monday, July 20, 2015 at 8:49AM Manuel here sharing these new character posters for the English-language adaptation of the Oscar-winning film, The Secret in their Eyes.
We talked at length about the film's trailer a few weeks back and the marketing for the film will surely continue revving up as we near its October release date.
The poster series is bold (if a tad on-the-nose) to deny us three sets of expressive eyes but it does force us to focus on these gorgeous movie stars' lips and eyebrows, while denying us another opportunity to gripe about the film's look (those wigs!!)
And yet, I'm surely not alone in flashing back to a handful of other eye-less character posters:
If you're going to ape a marketing campaign, you could do worse than reminding us all of that perfect Michel Gondry/Charlie Kaufman film. But perhaps that wasn't the intention, especially as it ends up being an unfair comparison on every single count; look at all the detail and suggestive plot elements we get in those 2004 posters and then turn to these new photoshopped images of Nicole, Chiwetel and Julia. They're much emptier and only tell us
Julia: Don't look back
Chiwetel: Don't look closer
Nicole: Don't look away
Here's hoping the final Secret poster is a bit more inventive, though floating head composites are always a very real threat for all star movies. I'm personally hopeful about Julia's performance; are you?
Reader Comments (12)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was literally the first thing I thought of when I saw those posters, though the latter are obviously far inferior.
As an American, I really hate when American producers feel the need to remake a US or English language version of a foreign film. For international TFE readers, how often does this happen in your countries, e.g., taking a property like Gone Girl, and making the equivalent for Spanish, Italian, Thai, Indian, etc. film goers?
It's sad that I can't even recognize Nicole Kidman's face anymore without benefit of eyes and explicit callout.
Pam, I was from Indonesia and I will tell you that the local movies always remake foreign movies (US, Hong Kong etc). When I was younger, I really enjoyed this local family musical comedy and I didn't realize that it's actually a remake of "Sound of Music" until I saw it years later.
I think it's more common in Asia countries though. It's not 100% carbon copies in most cases; obviously due to budget and cultural background but the main ideas/inspirations are very obvious.
Very excited about Julia's performance and how the movie will deal with the material. The posters are kind of silly.
Oh come on it's obviously Kidman,she hasn't changed that much and I for one do think she has altered but hey that's Hollywood.
Listen, I love (and worship) Nicole Kidman, but her lips and eyebrows (i.e. the most prominent features on display in this poster) are so markedly different from her visage in, say, The Others (where she actually *resembles* Grace Kelly, by the way) that it's a visible distraction. That said, what she does to her face, body, etc. is her business, so it's not a criticism, per se, so much as a fair observation. I hope this film is a winner!
Borrowing Madonna's words: "It feels... uhm... reductive."
With Kidman's eyes blocked by that ribbon, she looks a lot like Rosamund Pike.
This movie is a hard sell, and the disturbing Eyes of Laura Mars treatment (or even worse with covered eyes) is not going to help it. Future cinema historians will mark this era as yet another bomb and the end of Nicole Kidman's film career: Grace of Monaco, Just Go With It, Before I Go Sleep.
You know since Just Go With It she has had a pair of Globe nods, an Emmy nod, and a massive hit children's film that was universally adored. We should all have such decorated "ends of our careers" 😒
Those posters suck.