Close Your Eyes

The big paradox of the film image: how it produces permanence while registering a disappearance. Very much a movie suspended in time about a lifetime of thinking, making, and watching other images. It aims very high and sustains itself with so much force. There are lots of…

Filipe Furtado

I've never seen a film like this with such a definite, deeply considered sense of finality to it - above all about old age, but impossibly sad and yet still the eternal human beauty of sadness. Where life ends up being a pile of unanswered questions, looking back at bits…

Neil Bahadur

First released 50 years ago, after Francoist censors convinced themselves that its anti-authoritarian messaging would have little social impact if buried under such a “boring” art film, Victor Erice’s “The Spirit of the Beehive” follows a gullible six-year-old girl named…

davidehrlich

El personaje de Ana Torrent le explica al de Manolo Solo que, aunque le gusta su trabajo como guía en el Museo del Prado, a veces le preocupa reducir el discurso de las obras a unos mensajes repetitivos, predecibles, estables. Fácilmente amoldables a las expectativas del…

Guille Hormigo

many years ago, when asked why he makes films, Erice quoted Jean Renoir, "A film is made to create a bridge." what he meant, specifically, was to create dialogue with those we have relationships with, as well as with ourselves. Close Your Eyes is, quite literally, about…

ShawnGlinis

a dog wears a backwards baseball cap at one point in this. not something one might expect to see going into this kinda thing

mr movie ambassador

Victor Erice and Pedro Costa in conversation, moderated by Paulo Branco: Paulo Branco: I know Victor and Pedro have been having conversations that we've regrettably not been privy to. Here we have the opportunity to let you speak a bit on everything that you feel like,…

jpmezart

Wow, what an intriguing movie that circles around a movie as it's structure. We have an T.V. interview with a former director about a missing actor from that film decades past which unlocks so many inquiries as things happen to open up surreptitiously from book to photo…

pirateneckbeard

Igual porque uno es de natural melancólico, pero no puedo evitar percibir en los últimos años una triste decadencia de la imagen, agravada un poco más ahora por lo que parece venir con las IAs. Tenemos una capacidad ya infinita de producir imágenes, de consumirlas, de…

Miguel Muñoz Garnica