EXCLUSIVE: Movie Motion has acquired North American rights to Shut Your Eyes (Cerrar los ojos) by Spanish director Victor Erice and is planning a theatrical launch in late summer time.
An official choice of Cannes, Toronto, NYFF, San Sebastian and BFI London movie festivals and winner of a particular quotation from the nationwide society of movie critics, it opens theatrically in New York and LA in August, adopted by digital and residential leisure releases.
Shut Your Eyes is Erice’s first movie in additional than three a long time after 1992 Cannes award-winner Dream Of Mild. He launched his profession with 1973’s The Spirit Of The Beehive.
Shut Your Eyes follows the mysterious disappearance of a well-known Spanish actor Julio Arenas on a movie shoot. His physique is rarely discovered however the police conclude that he’s been the sufferer of an accident on a cliff by the ocean. Years later, his disappearance is highlighted on a tv present with unique photographs of his final scenes. Stars Manolo Solo (The Fury Of A Affected person Man), Jose Coronado (No Relaxation For The Depraved), who received a Goya Award for Finest Supporting Actor, and Ana Torrent (Thesis, The Different Boleyn Woman, El nido), who reunited with Erice 50 years after showing at age 5 in The Spirit Of The Beehive.
Early this yr, the Nationwide Society of Movie Critics awarded it a particular quotation for a movie awaiting U.S. distribution.
The deal was led by Movie Motion President Michael Rosenberg, and Vicente Canales, managing director of Movie Manufacturing facility, on behalf of the filmmakers.
“A lot has been written by the critics since Cannes praising Victor Erice’s Shut Your Eyes, and it’s certainly one of many cinematic occasions of the yr for cinephiles. This deeply transferring thriller concerning the nature of reminiscence, id and cinema, itself, additional cements Erice as one among our most profound masters of the medium. We couldn’t be extra proud to launch the movie,” Rosenberg stated.
Movie Motion has additionally not too long ago acquired Sisi & I, starring Sandra Huller; Eureka from Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso; Bertrand Bonello’s drama Coma; In The Rearview, Maciek Hamela’s Ukrainian battle documentary; Jessica Hausner’s darkish comedy Membership Zero, at present in theaters; and 20,000 Species Of Bees, a 2022 Silver Bear winner from Spain and winner of three Goya awards.