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Close Your Eyes (2023)
Close Your Eyes (2023): Watch Online in Spanish
| Movie | Close Your Eyes |
| Real Name | Cerrar los ojos |
| Rating | 7 |
| Duration | 162 Min |
| Aired | 2023-08-16 |
| Languages | Spanish |
| Subtitle | N/a |
| Quality | Bluray |
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Sources
Countries
Argentina, Spain
Genres
Tags
N/a
Directors
Víctor Erice
Stars
Manolo Solo, Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez, María León, Mario Pardo
Writers
Michel Gaztambide, Víctor Erice
Companies
Tandem Films, Pampa Films, Pecado Films, Nautilus Films, TVE, Movistar+, Canal Sur, EiTB, TeleMadrid
Taglines
N/a
Description
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Review
Author: Geronimo1967
We begin by watching a ten minute excerpt from a drama that shortly afterwards discover is just about all there is from the final film of acclaimed Spanish actor "Julio Arenas". He finished filming for the day then was never seen nor heard from again. Many years later, a television journalist "Soriano" (Helena Miquel) invites the film's director "Garay" (Manolo Solo) onto her missing persons television programme with a view to finding out just what happened to him. In best "Crimewatch" style, someone calls into the programme with a possible lead. Might they have found this man after all these years? On the face of it, the story is all a bit predictable. It's the quality of the acting and the writing that puts the meat on the bones, and both Solo and the Jose Coronoado as handyman "Gardel" deliver engagingly well. It is a slow burn of a film, with an emphasis split between the search for the actor and the search of "Garay" for some degree of closure so he can get on with his life rather listlessly spent reading, drinking, smoking and fishing with the fellow residents of his squat. Fans of "Rio Bravo" (1959) might recognise the song he sings with neighbours "Toni" (Dani Téllez) and his expectant wife, and those few moments of the film demonstrate nicely the emotions of friendship, emotion and loneliness director Victor Erice wants to convey for just about all of the principal characters. The conclusion in inconclusive, but it does make you pine a little for the days where even the smallest of towns had it's own cinema. I wonder if anyone should ever make the underpinning movie? This is worth watching.