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Victor Erice, one of the most acclaimed and influential Spanish directors of all time, has made his long-awaited comeback with his new film Close Your Eyes ( Cerrar los ojos ), which premiered in the Cannes Premiere section at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on 22 May 2023.
Close Your Eyes is Erice’s first feature film in 30 years, since his 1992 docudrama The Quince Tree Sun, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes that year. Erice is also known for his classic debut The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), which is widely regarded as one of the best Spanish films ever made, and his second feature El Sur (1983), which was released as an unfinished version due to funding problems.
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Close Your Eyes is a drama film that stars Manolo Solo, José Coronado, and Ana Torrent. It tells the story of Miguel Garay, an aging filmmaker and novelist who hasn’t made a movie in decades,...
Close Your Eyes is Erice’s first feature film in 30 years, since his 1992 docudrama The Quince Tree Sun, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes that year. Erice is also known for his classic debut The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), which is widely regarded as one of the best Spanish films ever made, and his second feature El Sur (1983), which was released as an unfinished version due to funding problems.
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Close Your Eyes is a drama film that stars Manolo Solo, José Coronado, and Ana Torrent. It tells the story of Miguel Garay, an aging filmmaker and novelist who hasn’t made a movie in decades,...
- 7/26/2023
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One of the most prized moments of Howard Hawks’ macho manifesto Rio Bravo is when Dean Martin’s Dude kicks back, gazes lightheadedly at the ceiling, and moseys into a rendition of the western ballad “My Rifle, My Pony and Me,” accompanied on guitar and harmonica with a sense of second nature by Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan. It’s an oasis of calm, of earned sentimentality, in the steeliest and most no-nonsense movie of its Hollywood era, and an emblem of the male camaraderie––sans queer shading, for sure––beloved of its most famous fans, most notably Quentin Tarantino.
Víctor Erice, however––in his first feature since a mysterious absence following 1992’s The Quince Tree Sun––has now made the ultimate homage. The centerpiece of his comeback film Close Your Eyes is its lead, melancholic filmmaker and writer Miguel Garay (Manolo Solo), busting out his acoustic during a communal...
Víctor Erice, however––in his first feature since a mysterious absence following 1992’s The Quince Tree Sun––has now made the ultimate homage. The centerpiece of his comeback film Close Your Eyes is its lead, melancholic filmmaker and writer Miguel Garay (Manolo Solo), busting out his acoustic during a communal...
- 5/26/2023
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
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The Spirit of the Beehive director’s first feature in 30 years uses a film-within-a-film structure to ruminate on memory, ageing and cinema itself
82-year-old Spanish director Víctor Erice had previously released a total of three feature films: his classic The Spirit of the Beehive in 1973, The South in 1983 and The Quince Tree Sun in 1992. Now here is Close Your Eyes, co-written by Erice and Michel Gaztambide, whose title could be taken to indicate a farewell. We can only hope not. 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. And it is also about cinema, which helps to promote memory and retrieve that which has vanished, even as it is itself in danger of being forgotten. Close Your Eyes could even...
82-year-old Spanish director Víctor Erice had previously released a total of three feature films: his classic The Spirit of the Beehive in 1973, The South in 1983 and The Quince Tree Sun in 1992. Now here is Close Your Eyes, co-written by Erice and Michel Gaztambide, whose title could be taken to indicate a farewell. We can only hope not. 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. And it is also about cinema, which helps to promote memory and retrieve that which has vanished, even as it is itself in danger of being forgotten. Close Your Eyes could even...
- 5/25/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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Spanish director expresses disappointement it was not programmed in Competition after turning down an offer from Directors’ Fortnight.
Spanish director Victor Erice, whose film Close Your Eyes is screening in Cannes Premiere, has published an open letter in Spain’s El País newspaper explaining that he is not in Cannes personally as he is disappointed by the decision of delegate general Thierry Fremaux to not programme the film in the main Competition.
Erice said he wanted to put the record straight after reading a report in El Pais that the film was not selected for Competition because it was not ready in time.
Spanish director Victor Erice, whose film Close Your Eyes is screening in Cannes Premiere, has published an open letter in Spain’s El País newspaper explaining that he is not in Cannes personally as he is disappointed by the decision of delegate general Thierry Fremaux to not programme the film in the main Competition.
Erice said he wanted to put the record straight after reading a report in El Pais that the film was not selected for Competition because it was not ready in time.
- 5/24/2023
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
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It’s been 31 years since the great Spanish auteur Victor Erice made his last feature-length film, and as Cannes topper Thierry Frémaux pointed out during a brief introduction to the 82-year-old director’s long-awaited return to the screen, Close Your Eyes (Cerrar Los Ojos), that beats a record previously set by Terrence Malick.
As amusing as Frémaux’s anecdote was, he may have to one day explain why he chose to program such a graceful and powerful tribute to cinema in his festival’s catch-all “Cannes Première” sidebar instead of the main competition, for Close Your Eyes is a consummate work of filmmaking by a major artist.
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. Erice has managed,...
As amusing as Frémaux’s anecdote was, he may have to one day explain why he chose to program such a graceful and powerful tribute to cinema in his festival’s catch-all “Cannes Première” sidebar instead of the main competition, for Close Your Eyes is a consummate work of filmmaking by a major artist.
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. Erice has managed,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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