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Open Your Eyes

Eduardo Noriega

Penélope Cruz

Chete Lera

Fele Martínez

Najwa Nimri

Gérard Barray

Jorge de Juan

Miguel Palenzuela

Pedro Miguel Martínez

Ion Gabella

Joserra Cadiñanos

Tristán Ulloa

Pepe Navarro

Jaro

Walter Prieto

Carola Angulo

Fanny Gautier

Luis García

Javier Martín

José Ángel Egido

Ricardo Cruz

Raúl Otegui

María Elena Sáinz de Rozas

Alejandro Amenábar

José Luis Cuerda

Mateo Gil

Wolfgang Burmann

Mariano Marín

Fernando Bovaira

Concha Solera

Alberto Esteban

Ignacio Gutiérrez-Solana

Alain Sarde

Ana Amigo

Andrea Occhipinti

Ricardo Steinberg

Ramón Moya

Carmen Soriano

Sergio Burmann

Sylvie Imbert

Mar de Frutos

Natalia Montes

Javier Aramburu

Vázquez Hermanos

Eva Muslera

Hans Burmann

José Vinader

Pelayo Gutiérrez

Jaume Puig

Pablo Bürmann

Francisco Ramos

Ana Cuerda

Antonio Gómez

Belén Arsuaga

Félix Fontal

Pablo Carrión Bautista

Paca Almenara

Juan Carrión

Daniel Goldstein

Julien Naudin

Pedro Jesús De la Fuente

Emiliano Otegui

José G. Donado

Patrick Ghislain

María Teresa Payero

Carlos J. Santos

Juan Carlos Cuello

Elisabeth Adánez

Alberto García

Carlos Montero

Jesús Alonso

Ignacio Borja

Natalia Sáinz de Rozas

Mario Klemens

Miguel Ángel Bardavio

Filipe Manuel Neto

**An excellent film where dream, reality, illusion and fantasy mix.**

In this film, we follow the ordeal of César, a young Spaniard who has everything a young man could want: a comfortable life, money, friends and all the women he wants (although he avoids serious commitments as much as possible). During a birthday party, in which he tries to escape his most recent case, he meets Sofia, a seductive and intelligent young woman who knows how to captivate him. However, his whole life is ruined when he has a car accident, intentionally provoked, and his face is completely disfigured.

If the psychological, mental and physical difficulties caused by such an injury could be enough for a movie script, Amenábar goes even further by mixing this with various considerations about dreams, illusion and memory. Brutally intense, the film goes round and round, and from a certain point, it's hard for us to understand what is true and what is a dream or illusion of the protagonist. The ending is truly disconcerting.

Although the film does not seem very expensive, it has a good cast. Eduardo Noriega does a good dramatic job and is an excellent protagonist. Penélope Cruz, undoubtedly better known as she “made the leap” into American cinema, is still a very young and beautiful actress at this stage, and she is genuine in the work she develops. Chete Lera and Fele Martínez give good support and effort in their roles, and even Najwa Nimri, the supposed villain of the film, is very good at the task given to her.

A good part of the story told comes to us through the flashbacks that accompany César's report to his psychiatrist, and this resource was very well used and very effective. The film mixes well the themes it addresses, balancing very well in all of them and the dialogues are really good, they breathe naturalness and authenticity. Good sets, good costumes and the good choice of shooting locations helped a lot to make the film more visually beautiful, while the cinematography knew how to make the best use of the intense sunlight of the Spanish capital and the beautiful shades of blue in the sky, which contrast sharply with the dense penumbra that the main character seems to prefer.

Open Your Eyes (Abre los ojos) - sci-fi - romantic - drama - 1997 - trailer - Full HD

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