Open Your Eye / Abre los ojos (1997 Amenabar), film (es) ESP

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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.

Before he enjoyed international success with The Others (2001) and an Oscar win with The Sea Inside (2004), Alejandro Amenábar made a couple of smart thrillers. His debut Thesis (1996) starred Spirit of the Beehive’s Ana Torrent as an academic who discovers a real snuff movie featuring a student from her faculty. He followed it with this excellent psychodrama. Eduardo Noriega plays César, a man whose real and fantasy worlds are inseparable. They involve two women (Penélope Cruz and Najwa Nimri) and a nightmare that he cannot escape. To say any more would spoil the surprises of this hugely confident film. (The director was only 25 when he made it.) It’s superior in every way to Cameron Crowe’s oversized remake with Cruz and Tom Cruise.

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