Synopsis
Close Your Eyes (Cerrar los ojos, 2023) is Víctor Erice's Spanish mystery drama you can watch online on iFILM. It's the legendary director's first feature in more than thirty years — a film about a vanished actor and the way cinema keeps a face alive.
Years ago, Spanish screen star Julio Arenas walked off a set and was never seen again. No body, no finished film, a closed case. When a true-crime TV show drags the story back into public view, Julio's old friend — once a director, now living in near-seclusion — picks up the search. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that he's chasing his own abandoned life as much as his lost friend.
Manolo Solo plays a man leafing through his memory like someone else's archive, and the cast includes Ana Torrent, the very girl from Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive. The film runs close to three hours and refuses to hurry — a meditation on memory, loss and the power of film to bring back the gone. Slow, enveloping cinema for viewers who welcome silence. Stream Close Your Eyes (2023) online on iFILM.
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