Cheap Open Your Eyes (DVD) (Penélope Cruz, Eduardo Noriega (II)) Price

Related Products

Customer Reviews of Open Your Eyes

This is a very good movie
I got this movie so that I will continue to improve on my Spainish. I am thrilled to find such good movie in the process. I have seen Vanillia Sky, but this is so much better, in some way much more original. The performances...what can I say, I stayed glued to the television until the end.

Seeing Is Not Believing
A director friend of mine is fond of saying that you shouldn't believe anything you see on television, anything. Indeed, the wag that said, "The camera never lies" would be lost in our era where the camera seems incapable of doing anything else. The inability to believe our most trusted source of information is at the heart of Abre Los Ojos, or, Open Your Eyes, a superb film by Alejandro Amenabar. <
> <
>The plot, such as it is, is readily available elsewhere. Suffice it to say that the value of beauty, of image and perception, are the themes that drive it on every level. It stars the near perfect Penelope Cruz whose grace exudes a vulnerability reminiscent of Audrey Hepburn, she projects an almost angelic appeal. Her character, another woman, and two men form a rather odd four-pointed love triangle, which culminates in tragedy. This is a fairly pedestrian tale of love gone amiss, but as it unravels clues appear that hint at sub-texts, men moving furiously behind the scenery, maintaining illusions, dreams within dreams, perceptions with more weight that reality. <
> <
>As we begin to see through the layers of deception we have the sense of knowing less, not more, and yet, each new revelation draws us further in. Multi-layered stories like this usually collapse under the weight of their own complexity, not this one. Open Your Eyes is like a sumptuous impressionist painting; gorgeous when viewed from across the room, more fascinating still when viewed from inches away, when it is almost possible to see the hand of the master, applying his signature. <
> <
>This brilliant film was sent to the Hollywood puppy mill where it emerged as Vanilla Sky, directed by Cameron Crowe. Like all retreads, it had some virtue because the source it cannibalized was so good. In a deliciously ironic twist, it even allowed Penelope Cruz to reprise her role as Sofia. But Vanilla Sky invites viewers to close their eyes, not open them, in a desperate attempt to avoid seeing Tom Cruise sleepwalk through a dense, complex part requiring nuance, a word he might labor to spell much less convey. Then again, perhaps the presence of Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky is emphatic evidence of the point Abre Los Ojos makes so brilliantly. After all, for years the camera has been telling us that he's an actor.