The New York Times

‘Close Your Eyes’ Review: The Case of the Unfinished Film

For his latest, the Spanish director Victor Erice, known for the classic “The Spirit of the Beehive,” weaves a meta tale of a director looking for an absent actor. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase ...
Rolling Stone

‘Close Your Eyes’ Reintroduces a Major Spanish Filmmaker

Some five decades separate director Victor Erice’s debut film, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), and his latest, Close Your Eyes. In between these twin professional highlights, there are two other ...
Los Angeles Times

In ‘Close Your Eyes,’ a Spanish master returns, still obsessed with the power of movies

The first feature that Victor Erice directed, 1973’s “The Spirit of the Beehive,” begins in the 1940s, when a traveling cinema arrives in a small rural town in Spain to project “Frankenstein.” In the ...
IndieWire

‘My Rifle, My Pony, and Me’ from ‘Rio Bravo’ Powers One of the Very Best Movie Scenes of 2024

Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes” is an unconventional “love letter to cinema,” but one of the most powerful of that ilk in recent memory. “The sun is sinking in the West / The cattle go down to the ...