Everybody Knows

When a woman (Penélope Cruz) leaves her former alcoholic husband (Ricardo Darin) in Buenos Aires and goes to Spain with her two children (Ivan Chavero and Carla Campra) for the wedding of her sister (Inma Cuesta) and her fiancé (Roger Casamajor) in Asghar Farhadi's well-acted, engaging, overly long, 132-minute, psychological crime thriller, her feisty, asthmatic, 16-year-old daughter is kidnapped during the wedding reception and tension among the family (Ramón Barea, Sara Sálamo, Eduard Fernández, Elvira Mínguez, et al.) escalates and long-held secrets are revealed while her former lover (Javier Bardem) contemplates selling his share of a winery to raise the money for the ransom to the chagrin of his wife (Bárbara Lennie).
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