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      Close Your Eyes

      2023 2h 49m Drama List
      94% 35 Reviews Tomatometer CLOSE YOUR EYES turns on a famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, who disappears while filming a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at a cliff by the sea. Many years later, the mystery is brought up once more by a TV program that tries to evoke the actor, offering as a scoop images of the last scenes in which he participated, shot by his close friend, director Miguel Garay. Read More Read Less
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      A near-masterpiece for director/co-writer Victor Erice, Close Your Eyes ends his long gap between films with a moving meditation on memory, identity, and cinema itself.

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      Wendy Ide Observer (UK) While there's a melancholy magic to it all, the spell is stretched rather thinly over the long running time. Rated: 3/5 Apr 15, 2024 Full Review Danny Leigh Financial Times Where another director might treat the wonder of movies with a wide-eyed, wistful glow, Erice sees it as double-edged: a spell that also spotlights the lack of magic in real life. Rated: 4/5 Apr 11, 2024 Full Review David Ehrlich indieWire In some respects, it feels like the most nakedly personal film the now 83-year-old has ever made. In others, it feels like the only film he’s ever made. Or maybe all of them. Rated: B+ Oct 10, 2023 Full Review Amber Wilkinson iofilm.co.uk A meditation on both memory and movies as well as ageing and a hankering for the past that is informed by the melancholic knowledge that nostalgia is inevitably rose-tinted. Rated: 4/5 Apr 24, 2024 Full Review Philip Concannon The Skinny Close Your Eyes is driven by a sincere belief in cinema’s power to awaken something within us. Rated: 5/5 Apr 8, 2024 Full Review Rene Sanchez Cine Sin Fronteras A lyric journey about cinema's ability to make us remember, dream, and feel. [Full Review in Spanish] Rated: 4/4 Dec 29, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis CLOSE YOUR EYES turns on a famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, who disappears while filming a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at a cliff by the sea. Many years later, the mystery is brought up once more by a TV program that tries to evoke the actor, offering as a scoop images of the last scenes in which he participated, shot by his close friend, director Miguel Garay.
      Director
      Víctor Erice
      Screenwriter
      Víctor Erice, Michel Gaztambide, José Alba
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Spanish
      Runtime
      2h 49m