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Actor: Carola Angulo (II), G?rard Barray, Ion Gabella, Joserra Cadi?anos, Pen?lope CruzBrand: Lions Gate
Primary Contributor: Pen?lope Cruz
Primary Contributor: Eduardo Noriega (II)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Artisan Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Open Your Eyes
Movie Review: Not a bad film
Summary: 3 Stars
I got this because I am big fan of "Vanilla Sky." The plot line and even the dialog is very close. The climax of "Vanila Sky" was much better and it also better conveyed the sense of dis-jointedness of a bad dream. I'm glad I bought this video but if I had to choose between the two I would choose "Vanilla Sky" every time.
Summary of Open Your Eyes
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/11/2008 Run time: 117 minutes Rating: RImagine if an actor's director like Eric Rohmer--whose films consist almost entirely of conversation between pairs or small groups of people--made a film that incorporated elements from movies like Dark City, eXistenZ, The Thirteenth Floor, The Truman Show, and Total Recall. The result might resemble Alejandro Amenabar's remarkable second feature, Open Your Eyes, which favors ideas over effects and offers twist upon twist with mind-warping agility. This film rewards multiple viewings, pushing the viewer toward one perception of reality, then switching to another until reality itself is called into question. Melodrama, love story, and psychological thriller combine with a dash of science fiction, forming a plot that is both disorienting and deceptively precise.
Set in Madrid, the story defies description, but this much can be revealed: young, handsome Cesar (Eduardo Noriega) is vain, rich, charming, and--following a botched suicide-murder scheme by a jilted lover--horribly disfigured. He'd fallen in love with Sofia (Pen?lope Cruz) but is now an embittered husk of his former self, stuck in a "psychiatric penitentiary" on a murder charge and hiding behind an expressionless mask. His reality has crumbled, but as the film's agenda is gradually revealed, we realize that there are other factors in play. Exposing that agenda would be a criminal offense against those who haven't seen the film; suffice it to say that Open Your Eyes takes you into the twilight zone and beyond, and does so cleverly enough to prompt Tom Cruise to produce and star in an English-language remake, Vanilla Sky. The 2001 remake, directed by Cameron Crowe, costars Cameron Diaz and Pen?lope Cruz, who reprises her original role. --Jeff Shannon
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