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Releasing on Aug 23, 2024
  • 2024
  • Avalon
  • 2 h 49 m
  • 2024
  • Avalon
  • 2 h 49 m
Close Your Eyes

Summary Set in contemporary Madrid, an aging filmmaker named Miguel Garay is called upon to recount his memories of working on his final and still unfinished film, “The Farewell Gaze.” During its production, the lead actor and Miguel’s close friend, Julio Arenas, disappeared without a trace, leaving in his wake a mystery that would haunt the liv...

Directed By: Víctor Erice

Written By: Víctor Erice, Michel Gaztambide

  • 2024
  • Avalon
  • 2 h 49 m
  • 2024
  • Avalon
  • 2 h 49 m

Close Your Eyes

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary Set in contemporary Madrid, an aging filmmaker named Miguel Garay is called upon to recount his memories of working on his final and still unfinished film, “The Farewell Gaze.” During its production, the lead actor and Miguel’s close friend, Julio Arenas, disappeared without a trace, leaving in his wake a mystery that would haunt the liv...

Directed By: Víctor Erice

Written By: Víctor Erice, Michel Gaztambide

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
84
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 13 Critic Reviews
84
85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Apr 8, 2024
What begins as an apparently modest, small-scale drama, ends in a moment of ethereal beauty, for both characters and viewers.
By David Jenkins FULL REVIEW
90
Oct 18, 2023
Erice’s first feature in 31 years — and only his fourth overall — arrives as something between a desert oasis and a mirage: a shimmery, nourishing culmination of ideas and ellipses in a career so elusive as to have taken on a mythic quality, to the point that his latest feels almost dreamed into being.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
88
Sep 13, 2023
Where once Victor Erice's films defined the unknown as a life not yet experienced, Close Your Eyes interprets it as a life already lived, slowly dissolving into memory.
By Cole Kronman FULL REVIEW
83
Oct 18, 2023
In some respects, it feels like the most nakedly personal film the now 83-year-old has ever made. In others, it feels like the only film he’s ever made. Or maybe all of them.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 12, 2024
The script, by Erice and Michel Gaztambide, tarries for singsongs, dinners and poignant conversations about cinema and the self.
By Tara Brady FULL REVIEW
80
May 25, 2023
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.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
60
May 25, 2023
Close Your Eyes finally builds a head of emotional steam in its last half hour, while exploring questions of identity and what remains when memory has gone.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW

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Production Company La mirada del adiós, Tandem Films, Nautilus Films, Pecado Films, Pampa Films, Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), Movistar+, Vodafone, Canal Sur Radio y Televisión, Euskal Irrati Telebista (EiTB), TeleMadrid, Crea SGR, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Junta de Andalucía, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (INCAA), Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Comunidad de Madrid, Film in Granada, Diputación de Granada, Film Factory Entertainment
Release Date Aug 23, 2024
Duration 2 h 49 m
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Awards

Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 4 Wins & 12 Nominations
Goya Awards
• 1 Win & 11 Nominations
CinEuphoria Awards
• 4 Wins & 10 Nominations

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