Spanish director Victor Erise, whose work I once met, watching on the recommendation
One friend of the filmmaker, the film "South" and which I liked, made after a long silence, a new feature film "Close your eyes" / Cerrar los ojos, 2023, which I watched yesterday. The film has a very long time – 2 hours 49 minutes, but I watched
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Spanish director Victor Erise, whose work I once met, watching on the recommendation One friend of the filmmaker, the film "South" and which I liked, made after a long silence, a new feature film "Close your eyes" / Cerrar los ojos, 2023, which I watched yesterday. The film has a very long time – 2 hours 49 minutes, but I watched it without any effort on my part, although some may find it to be a long one. I, of course, do not know all the circumstances of the life and work of the director, not much has been written about him, but I read that at one time with the film “South” there were some problems with completion, he considered it unfinished, so making a film about the former director, he may have invested in it and something very personal. Once more than 20 years ago, during the filming of the director Miguel Garai (Manolo Solo) of one film, the famous actor Julio Arenas (Jose Coronado) suddenly disappeared, then the investigations did not lead to anything and it was decided that he had an accident, perhaps he even committed suicide. The film then remained unfinished, because the director did not want to invite another actor to the role and he left the direction, devoting himself to writing and translation. Unexpectedly for him, one day he was found from television, where they decided to film a program about this case, and invited to an interview. After that, his life suddenly changed, flashbacks stirred, he met with his colleague, with the daughter of the missing actor, who was also his close friend, as well as with a woman with whom they were both in love at the time. Then he returned to the place on the coast, where he himself had lived in recent years, but he did not have a long stay there. Soon he again called a woman from television and reported that the actor considered dead seemed to be found - an employee of one of the shelters for old people, accidentally watching the TV show, recognized this man and reported that he was in their shelter, but completely lost his memory. And then they start trying to get his memory back. In the end, Miguel decides to show Julio that small piece of the film that survived and was even voiced, hoping to awaken his memories. Let us hope that they have at least partially succeeded in this, although we do not get complete confidence. Despite the very leisurely narration, I liked the film, the actors who played the main roles perfectly, so those who like the films of Victor Erise can recommend watching this film.
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