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Movie Description
Handsome 25-year-old César (Eduardo Noriega) has it all--a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women. Unfortunately, he can't get rid of his latest conquest, Nuria (Najwa Nimri) soon enough. When she crashes his birthday party, César uses his best friend Pelayo's stunningly attractive girlfriend, Sofia (Penélope Cruz), as a means to her. The next morning, Nuria is waiting in her car outside his apartment and manages to coax him into the vehicle. The next thing César knows, he's wearing a mask to conceal a horrible disfiguration while being interrogated in a prison held on a murder charge. Alejandro Amenábar's thriller distorts both the viewer's and César's perception of reality with a series of mind-bending plot twists, ensuring that this intriguing Spanish production will keep you guessing until its final moments.
Film Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Industry Reviews
"...Intriguing..."
News of the World - Mike Clark (04/16/1999)
"...Intricate thriller..." -- Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly - p.77 - Entertainment Weekly Staff (10/08/1999)
"...The label 'psychological thriller' doesn't do justice to the playful, enjoyably perplexing OPEN YOUR EYES..." -- 4 out of 5 stars
Total Film - p.77 - Tom Dawson (03/01/2000)
"...OPEN YOUR EYES is a film with enough intellectual meat on its stylish bones to give more adventurous moviegoers something to chew on afterward..."
New York Times - p.E20 - Lawrence Van Gelder (04/16/1999)
"...Successful both as suspense and as philosophy, OPEN YOUR EYES is sci-fi for the more serious-minded..."
Box Office - p.233 - Annlee Ellingson (04/01/1999)
"...A complex, disturbing, occasionally terrifying story that wreaks havoc with our own fragile sense of what's real and what's not..."
Los Angeles Times - p.F6 - Kenneth Turan (04/16/1999)
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