Spain, France, Italy 117m, Colour
Director: Alejandro Amenábar; Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Fele Martínez, Najwa Nimri
Remade as Vanilla Sky (2001), Open Your Eyes is a psychological thriller about a wealthy and once handsome y...
Spain, France, Italy 117m, Colour
Director: Alejandro Amenábar; Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Fele Martínez, Najwa Nimri
Remade as Vanilla Sky (2001), Open Your Eyes is a psychological thriller about a wealthy and once handsome young man named César who is unable to separate his dreams from reality after he suffers a horribly disfiguring accident. César’s story is told from his jail cell to a psychiatrist as a series of increasingly surreal flashbacks which we learn to be figments of César’s imagination brought about by his decision to have himself cryogenically frozen until such time as doctors were able to repair his injuries. A fascinating and complex film that plays with concepts of love, reality and morality, we learn that beauty is sometimes only skin deep (Klaus Ming June 2013).