Close Your Eyes

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Cast & Crew Interviews

Discs: 1

• Highest Rating
  "A stunning return. A quietly astonishing new movie...has its own warm spirit of optimism but, happily, none of the self-regarding solipsism you might fear from such a personal valentine to cinema."
  Justin Chang, The New Yorker
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  "Erice’s fourth feature is a stirring tale about memory, identity, and friendship, and it feels deeply, almost alarmingly personal."
  Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
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  "A poignant cinematic swan song."
  Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
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  "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."
  Guy Lodge, Variety
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  "A slow-burn marvel which climaxes in a sequence of overwhelming profundity and mystery."
  David Jenkins, Little White Lies
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  "A moving meditation on existence, memory, and cinema’s potential to preserve them both."
  Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
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  "Winningly satisfying and cerebral...."
  David Katz, The Film Stage
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  "A bittersweet homage to how movies can bring us together and remind us of the past but never bring us back to the people we once were. "
  Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com
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  "Nearly 50 years after his stunning debut 'The Spirit of the Beehive,' Victor Erice returns with an equally moving ode to the power of memories — and the movies...For those of us who love the movies as a medium for connection, the climax is something close to bliss. Any sense of bitterness over the hands of fate is gone. What you’re left with is the idea that you can still find peace, so long as you’re willing to look for it."
  David Fear, Rolling Stone
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  "It’s hard to envisage a more emotionally overwhelming farewell, if that’s what Close Your Eyes becomes, from a vital, too-often missing, force in world cinema."
  Leigh Singer, Sight & Sound
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  "A passionate, big-issue film from revered Spanish maestro Victor Erice, 'Close Your Eyes' engagingly reflects on art, memory, identity and recapturing time past."
  Deborah Young, The Film Verdict
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  "Close Your Eyes is a deeply personal capstone by the 84-year-old artist."
  David Schwartz, Reverse Shot
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  "Quietly transcendent, Close Your Eyes may be among the best films you see all year...You don’t have to know Erice’s work to get swept up in Close Your Eyes. But those who do know his work will find the new film an almost unbearably moving experience."
  Justin Chang, Fresh Air, NPR
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  "[A] breathtakingly melancholic film infused with mourning, journeying its way through subtly painful yet often poetic conversations about searching for something lost that may never be found. That only makes all the discoveries it makes that much more stunning to behold."
  Chase Hutchinson, Collider
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  "[A]n elegiac, career-capping epic...Watching Close Your Eyes, we marvel at Mr. Erice’s sweeping artistry, having found it alive and well."
  Zachary Barnes, Wall Street Journal
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  "It's concurrently a love letter and a eulogy to the form, which Erice professes as having a life after death, though ever more tenuously so due to the existential carelessness that’s come with digital cinema versus celluloid. All of this exists within the cracks of the furrowed narrative. Watch more closely—it beguiles, and we see cinema in all its living form so that we too may remember what it is."
  Kat Sachs, Chicago Reader
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  "4/4 STARS. The movie’s senses of cinema are never present for self-consciously clever, self-referential reasons. Rather, they’re deeply intertwined with considerations of age and mortality. The searching of a now-84-year-old maestro of cinema is exquisitely moving and speaks with an urgency that isn’t at all undermined by the films languid pace."
  Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
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  "[A] 21st century masterpiece about remembering and forgetting the 20th century."
  Soham Gadre, Paste Magazine
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  "[Erice] allows us to keep our faith in the beauty, mystery, and magic of films as a constant act of remembrance in the face of oblivion. It offers up a very particular immortality in the face of death, such that, in a Janus-like manner, we can turn our gaze toward both the past and the future of cinema."
  Ayeen Forootan, In Review Online