Open Your Eyes (1997 film)

Abre los Ojos English Open Your Eyes is a 1997 Spanish film cowritten, coscored and directed by Alejandro Amenbar and cowritten by Mateo Gil. It stars Eduardo Noriega, Penlope Cruz, Fele Martnez and Najwa Nimri. In 2002, Open Your Eyes was ranked No. 84 in the Top 100 SciFi List by the Online Film Critics Society. The movies intersecting planes of dream and reality have prompted some critics to suggest comparisons to Calderns masterwork Life Is a Dream Spanish La vida es sueo , 1635.

A young, handsome man wakes up to a female voice telling him to open his eyes. He drives to an empty city. He wakes up again, this time to a woman in his bed. He tells her not to leave messages on his alarm.From a prison cell in Madrid, the 25yearold man, Csar Eduardo Noriega, tells his story to psychiatrist Antonio Chete Lera while wearing a prosthetic mask. Flashbacks reveal the following events goodlooking Csar is attractive to women. At his birthday party, he flirts with Sofa Penlope Cruz, the girlfriend of his best friend Pelayo Fele Martnez. Later on, he takes her home and stays the night, although they do not sleep together. The next morning, Csars obsessive exlover Nuria Najwa Nimri pulls up outside Sofas flat, offering him a ride and sex. On the way to her home, however, she crashes the car with the intent to kill them both. Csar is horribly disfigured, beyond the help of cosmetic surgery. Sofa cannot bear to see him like this and goes back to Pelayo. ........

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