DramaThrillerScience Fiction

Open Your Eyes

A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.

Release Date : 1997-12-19

Language :Spanish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Les Films Alain SardeLas Producciones del EscorpionLucky Red

Production Country : SpainFranceItaly

Alternative Titles : Open Your Eyes

Cast

Character Name : César

Original Name : Eduardo Noriega

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sofía

Original Name : Penélope Cruz

Gender : Female

Character Name : Antonio

Original Name : Chete Lera

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pelayo

Original Name : Fele Martínez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Nuria

Original Name : Najwa Nimri

Gender : Female

Character Name : Duvernois

Original Name : Gérard Barray

Gender : Male

Character Name : Encargado L.E.

Original Name : Jorge de Juan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Comisario

Original Name : Miguel Palenzuela

Gender : Male

Character Name : Médico Jefe

Original Name : Pedro Miguel Martínez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Recluso paranoico

Original Name : Ion Gabella

Gender : Male

Character Name : Guardia

Original Name : Joserra Cadiñanos

Gender : Male

Character Name : Camarero

Original Name : Tristán Ulloa

Gender : Male

Character Name : Presentador T.V.

Original Name : Pepe Navarro

Gender : Male

Character Name : Médico 1

Original Name : Jaro

Gender : Male

Character Name : Médico 2

Original Name : Walter Prieto

Gender : Male

Character Name : Médico 3

Original Name : Carola Angulo

Gender : Female

Character Name : Secretaria

Original Name : Fanny Gautier

Gender : Female

Character Name : Guardia jurado 1

Original Name : Luis García

Gender : Male

Character Name : Guardia jurado 2

Original Name : Javier Martín

Gender : Male

Character Name : Policía

Original Name : José Ángel Egido

Gender : Male

Character Name : Conductor

Original Name : Ricardo Cruz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chico servicios

Original Name : Raúl Otegui

Gender : Male

Reviews

Filipe Manuel Neto

@FilipeManuelNeto

2023-01-03

**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.