2 h 49 m

2 h 49 m

Summary A famous Spanish actor, Julio Arenas, disappears while shooting a film. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he’s been the victim of an accident by the sea. Many years later, the mystery surrounding his disappearance is brought back into the spotlight by a TV programme outlining his life, and death, and showing excl...

Drama

Directed By: Víctor Erice

Written By: Michel Gaztambide, Víctor Erice

2 h 49 m

2 h 49 m

Close Your Eyes

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews

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Drama

Directed By: Víctor Erice

Written By: Michel Gaztambide, Víctor Erice

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Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews

90% Positive
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0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews

90% Positive
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New York Magazine (Vulture)

May 25, 2023

Erice’s fourth feature is a stirring tale about memory, identity, and friendship, and it feels deeply, almost alarmingly personal.

By Bilge Ebiri FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

May 25, 2023

Slowly but deliberately paced, the movie builds to a crescendo in a closing act where a movie itself — a real movie shot and projected on celluloid — plays a pivotal role, resuscitating forgotten lives and memories as only the cinema can do.

By Jordan Mintzer FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

Sep 13, 2023

Where once Victor Erice's films defined the unknown as a life not yet experienced, Close Your Eyes interprets it as a life already lived, slowly dissolving into memory.

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IndieWire

Oct 18, 2023

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.

By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

The Film Stage

May 26, 2023

Erice and co-writer Michel Gaztambide satisfyingly resolve the primary mystery while letting possible accompanying details and circumstances swim teasingly in our minds.

By David Katz FULL REVIEW

The Guardian

May 25, 2023

It is a mysterious, digressive, long and baggily constructed film possessed of a distinctive richness and humanity, all about the balance between memory and forgetting which we all negotiate as we come to the end of our lives.

By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

Screen Daily

May 25, 2023

Close Your Eyes finally builds a head of emotional steam in its last half hour, while exploring questions of identity and what remains when memory has gone.

By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company La mirada del adiós, Tandem Films, Nautilus Films, Pecado Films, Pampa Films, Canal Sur Radio y Televisión, Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), Euskal Irrati Telebista (EiTB), Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Comunidad de Madrid, Junta de Andalucía, Diputación de Granada, Film Factory Entertainment, Film in Granada, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), Vodafone

Duration 2 h 49 m

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Awards

Goya Awards

• 11 Nominations

Feroz Awards, ES

• 9 Nominations

ASECAN

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

Top Cast

Manolo Solo

Miguel Garay

Jose Coronado

Gardel, Julio Arenas

Ana Torrent

Ana Arenas

Petra Martínez

Sor Consuelo

María León

Belén Granados

Mario Pardo

Max Roca

Helena Miquel

Marta Soriano

Antonio Dechent

Tico Mayoral

Josep Maria Pou

Mr. Levy

Soledad Villamil

Lola San Román

Juan Margallo

Doctor Benavides

Dani Téllez

Toni

Alejandro Caballero Ramis

Patón

Rocío Molina

Teresa

Ana María

Sor Lucía

José Manuel Mansilla

Don Rafael

Kao Chenmin

Lin Yu

Venecia Franco

Qiao Shu, Judith

Fulgencio Javier

Cristian

Natalia Llorens

Dorina

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