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Releasing on Aug 23, 2024
  • 2024
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 49 m
  • 2024
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 49 m
Close Your Eyes

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...

Directed By: Víctor Erice

Written By: Michel Gaztambide, Víctor Erice

  • 2024
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 49 m
  • 2024
  • Film Movement
  • 2 h 49 m

Close Your Eyes

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
84
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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...

Directed By: Víctor Erice

Written By: Michel Gaztambide, Víctor Erice

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
84
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
84
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Apr 8, 2024
What begins as an apparently modest, small-scale drama, ends in a moment of ethereal beauty, for both characters and viewers.
By David Jenkins FULL REVIEW
90
Oct 18, 2023
Erice’s first feature in 31 years — and only his fourth overall — arrives as something between a desert oasis and a mirage: a shimmery, nourishing culmination of ideas and ellipses in a career so elusive as to have taken on a mythic quality, to the point that his latest feels almost dreamed into being.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
88
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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83
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
80
Apr 12, 2024
The script, by Erice and Michel Gaztambide, tarries for singsongs, dinners and poignant conversations about cinema and the self.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
80
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
60
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
Release Date Aug 23, 2024
Duration 2 h 49 m
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Awards

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 4 Wins & 12 Nominations
Goya Awards
• 1 Win & 11 Nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
• 4 Wins & 10 Nominations

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