Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Najwa Nimri
Country: Spain
Subtitles: English
Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) is the classic Spanish film behind the popular US remake, Vanilla Sky, also staring Cruz along with Tom Cruise. While the Cruise feature is highly stylized in its cinematographic approach, Abre Los Ojos is more theatrical, relying on more dramatic elements to move the film, such as more robust imagery involving masks. Where as in Vanilla Sky, Cruz's character was a dancer, in this version she plays an actress who moonlights as a park mime, emphasizing the superficiality of the protagonist's relationship with her. The two films both stand alone and are well worth seeing, however audiences expecting the more hallucinogenic, rock'n'roll style of Vanilla Sky will find the much lower budger Abre Los Ojos slightly bland.
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